56 THE BRITISH ROSES 
slender, subulate or almost aciculate, from flattish bases. Leaflets 
thin in texture, large, elongate, usually oblong with parallel sides, 
‘in. by 1 in., but forms occur with more oval leaflets usually 
rounded at both ends, or subacute at apex, subcordate at base, 
rarely appreciably narrowed, very finely, but rather densely, softly 
and some very small pricklets or none. Stipules broad, especially 
1 at the base, 
usually gla within, and densely glandular-pubescent, or 
tomentose with stipitate glands on back, very densely and shortly 
gland-ciliate edge, and often quite strongly inciso-dentate. 
or shorter than the fruit, rarely longer, strongly glandular-hispid, 
often glandular-aciculate. The true leaves reach the base of the 
less, rarely as much as 3 in. Occasionally it is quite ovoid, with 
the central one of a cluster somewhat obovoi 
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erect and connivent, incrassate and often coloured at the base, 
which does not become disarticulated from the fruit, but the 
seen. Petals b 
both at the apex and the base. 
gli e the mistake of supposing R. pomifera to have 
its leaflets eglandular beneath, but glands are almost always 
present, often in considerable quantities; moreover, Herrmann 
escri as 2 sora Crépin points out this error 
are never so, in his 
the base. As regards the faleate auricles, which 
