58 THE BRITISH ROSES 
spreading in flower, then erect, two entire, three with some narrow 
straight linear lobes, covered with glands, salient in bud, and 
shorter than the corolla. Flowers fine rose, petals not ciliate at 
weakly denticulate point, gland-fringed and a little puberulent, 
- Christ, in Ros. Schweiz. p. 81, remarks 
on the variability of the subfoliar glands in the two species, and 
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two. The ciliation of the petals in the group is a very unstable 
character. 
There are three British examples in herb. Déséglise. Mr. 
Baker's No. 36 from between Thirsk and Woodend, N. E. Yorks, 
has stoutish considerably curved prickles, large elliptical acute 
leaflets, not at all densely tomentose, and scarcely at all glandular 
} ters : is cert 
not R. recondita nor R. pomifera. Mr. Baker’s No. 49, collected 
by Hailstone at Boniton Lynn, Lanark, of which there is also a 
specimen at Kew, is almost un 
1 ging auricl tube very small, elli 
_ soid. Though this is nearer R. recondita than No. 86, Mr. Baker 
“may be right in referring it to R. mollis, and if not that it is a 
