52 THE BRITISH ROSES 
section is a well- 
Rubiginose. ities have prickles usually stout and Ase 
though sometimes straightish and slender. Their leaflets are 
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biserrate, o iry, but never ‘veel tomentose as in the last 
section, and they are covered all over the lower surface with 
sticky scented glan The a asclen are cog always and the 
ario 
U-Canine. Prickles = the most part uniform and hooked, 
leaflets uniserrate or biserrate, glabrous or ap ita pubescent, 
a pa or fies glandular secondary nerves, 
whole ‘ander surface. Paduadion. sepals, and styles 
var am Ss. 
SUBSECTION VILLOS. 
This subsection is undoubtedly our most complicated and 
difficult one, and I should have had great difficulty in under- 
standing it at all, but for the most kind assistance of the Rev. 
A. Ley and Mr. Barclay; the former especially has supplied me 
with large numbers of specimens of forms I sho otherwise 
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supplied me with many notes and odigwnig of living plants. 
Many of the specimens from Mr. Ley have been ient by Mr. 
aey from his own herbarium, to whom as thanks must also be 
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R. tomentosa Sm., and, to a less degree, of several other species. 
Moreover, it is quite possible to arrange a given collection in 
various ways, though us using the same specific and varietal names, 
according to individual opinion as to whether greater im mportance 
pele be given to this or that technical feature, since the 
the tomentosa group, but with tie: nesnisiont sepals 
spose, 2 tnt te che ts betwen the aggre- 
