64 THE BRITISH ROSES 
only lin. long by gin. wide. It seems near R. minuta Bor., 
which is nothing but a small-leaved form. 
Rosa PSEUDO-RUBIGINOSA 
Lejeune, Fl. Spa, p. 229 (1811). 
“Ovary rounded, hispid. Peduncles hispid. Stem and petioles 
with recurved prickles. Leaves oval-oblong, glandular hairy 
and rusty (rowdllés) beneath, and on the teeth. Flowers rather 
* deep rose.” 
Crépin says that this is synonymous with his R. Arduennensis, 
of which he gives the following description in Bull. Soc. de Il’Acad 
Roy. de Belg. 2me sér. xiv. p. 101 (1862) :—« 
1-1} metres. Stems not recurved at top, those of the year 
pressed, with narrow disc. Branches with brownish bark, their 
prickles with roundish base, straight. Leaves with 2-3 pairs of 
leaflets, petioles pubescent, glandular and prickly. Leaflets thin, 
petioluled, oval, oval-elliptic, or oyal-oblong, rounded at base, 
or 2-3. Peduneles ong and charged with numerous glandular 
setw, longer than their diameter. Calyx-tube globular or ovoid, 
glaucescent green, hispid-glandular. Sepals equalling the corolla, 
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very numerous, small, oblong, those in the centre very longly 
_ stipitate—Differs from R. mollissima in its prickles betng much 
longer, slender, always straight, even on flowering-branches, hori- 
zontal or up-cu those of R. pomifera and R. mollissima are 
| or a little hooked wi large bases), by its thin 
