48 THE BRITISH ROSES 
and rather stout. Its leaflets are very oO like those of 
spinosissima, but much larger, glabrous and somewhat irre- 
u 
always abortive. Ripart thought this just between canina 
but did not suggest hybridity. Schultz, odevet 
ought it was a eo as it doubiless is. 
. armatissima Déség. & Rip. has stout straight very pr a 
more like a true canina but for its very mi rmature. The 
large well-formed fruit and the hispid not villous styles are unlike 
the other members of this group. 
GROUP OF oi a acpacgewayaning x RUBIGINOSA. 
ecimens under 
‘ou 
Key To British Species aNnD VARIETIES. 
; {ised small, roundish, obtuse. Prickles very — densely 
preee © Bor. 
Leaflets large, elliptical, acute. Prickles subequal, geen large ... 2 
pe. glabrous above, hairy midribs only oe 
r. Nicholsonti Crép. 
Leaflets hairy both sides or " ooret Baker. 
Rosa BITURIGENSIS 
Boreau, Flore du Centre de la France, ed. 3, ii. p- 220 (1857). 
“A straight elevated shrub, forming a rounded bush, with 
seen. branches, reddish, as also are the leaves, in autumn; 
prickles very numerous, —, un th allest straight, 
the others hardly curved, v anal, sate aren - aa Sp. a 
ular, bearing 7 small ellipticel or Pasay os obtuse lates, — 
glandular. dentate, with open teeth, a little villo ous a 
with glands beneath ; stipules glandular with di 
tumn, with persis rect, not conni- 
6 creeping. —— of R. Pimpinolisfalin but 
