54 THE BRITISH ROSES 
occasionally thinly so or even glabrous, biserrate, rarely uniserrate. 
Upper stipules with porrect or spreading auricles. Peduncles 
short or long. Flowers usually deep rose, rarely pale or white. 
Fruit ripening later than in the pomifera group, and less pulpy, 
always retaining its sepals, which are somewhat pinnate, spreading 
or erect until long after it changes colour, and usually till its 
complete maturity, but not till its decay. Styles villous, rarely 
only hispid. 
Group of R. tomentosa. Usually tall bushes. Habit lax and 
arching, as in most caninaforms. Prickles often stout and falcate, 
sometimes straight, seldom quite hooked. Leaflets more or less 
pubescent both sides, sometimes quite densely so, sometimes 
thinly or subglabrous, biserrate, rarely uniserrate. Upper stipules 
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groups, reflexed or spreading and deciduous before the fruit turns 
colour, or at the latest, always before it ripens. Styles hispid or 
glabrous, rarely woolly. 
GROUP OF ROSA POMIFERA. 
Coes: leaflets always densely softly tomentose on both sides, 
usually rounded at apex, sometimes acute but very 
nate, and the stipules broad with deltoid auricles. Most authors 
make a feature of the auricles of the upper stipules of the 
flowering-branches being faleately incurved, instead of porrect or 
diverging. is is certainly not observable in dried specimens, 
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sepals are entire or very slightly pinnate, and are narrow and very 
rounded in transverse secti 
e stigmas are always in a dense villous head, so broad as 
to cover the whole disc, which is, however, not absent, as some 
authors state, but narrow. 
Key To Britisn Species. 
{ Leaflets large, oblong, rather thin. Prickles rather few .......---. 2 
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