62 THE BRITISH ROSES 
synonymous with f. inp is Sm. Several British specimens of 
R. mollis at Kew have conspicuous subfoliar glands. Some of 
these no doubt olay be referred to R. pseudo-rubiginosa Le}., 
but that species is om Seca by other features than by glan- 
dular leafiets, so that unles new name be created, we must 
allow such leaflets to case ect nally in &. mollis Sm. Mr. 
y, however, confines the name strictly to plants with:s eglan- 
duiar leaflets, and bas referred some of the glandular ones to 
lly. 
Pe ~ unable to give the distribution of f. ones in Britain 
common enough in Scotland and certainly thins out 
eed ectkhivesaitl Mr. Ley says records south of Monmouth 
must be accepted with caution, with which I quite agree. 
Rosa VILLOSA var. C@&RU 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soe. p. 192 (1817). 
“Fruit and peduncles nearly smooth. Flowers blood- red. 
cor glaucous atiful in t of the young shoots is very conspicuous 
than a.’ 
Mr. Baker, in Monogr. p. 214, says of it :—“ Leaflets softer 
and greyer than usual, with very few glands or aciculi on the 
petioles; the points of the sepals often very leafy; the calyx-tube 
and fruit broader than deep and perfectly smooth, the fruit 
pendent; the peduncle with fewer aes weaker seta and uae 
than usual, and in extreme cases qui — yi 
ones. Woods’s own Donia ra AES us awe hg tees the 
name to extreme forms with all the fruits smooth, because he 
very glauco 
almost sr poets to see in herbaria, while the latter becomes 
obscured, so that diagnosis becomes difficult. oa be Ags 
di Mr. 
partly on the smallness of the fruit, which is borne out by 
Woods’s and Baker’s specimens, but is not mentioned le either 
in their oe 
