46 THE BRITISH ROSES 
except a rare gland or two on a few midribs. They are rather 
small, oval or broadly so, subobtuse or acute, seldom rounded at 
the apex as in ¢zvoluta, nor as acuminate as in many canina forms, 
themselves seldom again toothed. Petioles glabrous, or a little 
hairy on the upper surface, especially at the nodes, Stipules 
thinly pubescent on back and edges tyles in a short broad 
woolly h Fruit decidedly urceolate-globose. 
now of no other station for this variety, but a specimen 
fro imbledon Common labelled « R. canina, towards hiber- 
main prickles, which are stout and hooked. This may be the 
Surrey station referred to by Mr. Baker under var. glabra. 
ROsA HIBERNICA var. CORDIFOLIA 
Baker, Review of Brit. Roses, p. 21 (1864). 
For description, see under R. hibernica var. glabra, p. 44. , 
In his Monogr. p. 210, Mr. Baker says :—* Prickles more slender 
ge ones scarcely curved. 
Terminal leaflets 15-18 lines long by one inch broad, the base 
cordate. Leaves nearly naked below, the teeth more open and 
blunter than in the type, the peduncle aciculate and glanduloso- 
be 9? 
y hav rmature, the main 
prickles being straightish and slender. The leaflets are mostly 7, 
widely spaced on the petioles, rather large, especially on the 
b oval and subac re) i 
uncle i ] 
inch, shortly but rather densely hispid and glandular. Fruit sub- 
ey » Smooth. Sepals mostly reflexed or spreading, pinnate. 
wooll 
: ty 
hether this variety be derived from restricted R. spinosissima 
_ erossed with a simple R. dumetorum or tomentosa form, or from 
__ &. pimpinellifolia and one of the Desegliset subgroup, it is not 
