ROSA SHERARDI 69 
9 i Leaflets tomentose R. suberecta Ley. 
Leaflets glabrous or nearly so ...... R. suberecta var. glabrata Ley. 
10 {Pricklee ray or only slightly curved il 
Prickles faleate ...... R. tomentosa var. pseudo-mollis E, G. Baker. 
Peduneles as a as or longer than fruit. Leaflets more or less 
densely glandular beneath. Fruit Smee. cc all ovoid 
ll g mosoides Crép. 
Peduncles shorter than fruit. Leaflets less gdantplas Acdeeth Fruit 
little or not at all hispid, the outer globose, the central pyriform 
. omissa Déségl. 
Rosa SHERARDI 
Davies, Welsh pampered p. 49 (1813). 
calyx aud ——— hispid. — Th spines of the branches are 
t llosa) , 
meant to ga rte distinet but does not sani the sate of 
difference. He remarks that he is convinced that his species is 
not a villosa form 
Smith described this as R. subglobosa in Eng. Fl. ed. 1, vol. ii. 
p. 384, but, —— the identity of his riod with Davies's, 
corrected the nam aa second edition to R. Sherardi Davies 
(see Journ. Bot. 1 1909, 353). His description is as follows :— 
“Fruit globular, abrapls somewhat bristly. Calyx sagan d 
pinnate. Prickles conical, hooked, compressed. Leaflets elli 
cal, acute, downy both sides.—A —_— plant than the bast 
[&. tomentosa], with stout round branches. Prickles chiefly in 
couples under the leaves and younger branches, hooked, conical, 
tapering gradually from a very broad base, all in some degree 
compressed laterally, but particularly so pn ’ the young vigorous 
shoots. Leaflets 5 or 7, elliptical, and rather broad, but more or 
less acute at each end, hoary, soft and downy on both sides, 
doubly serrated. ss t-stalks downy, prickly, shghtly glandular. 
Aah iens downy, acute, fringed with glands. Flower-stalks 1 to 
r 9, the more numerous the shorter, beset with glandular 
bristloe, mostly bracteated, with the uppermost leaflets stipular, 
are ovate lanceolate, acute, glandular, and downy. be 
of the calyx large, tumid, globose, abrupt, often slightly demenee. 
sometimes a little elongated at the base usly besprinkled 
with bristles, but sometimes almost naked. In a half-ripe state 
its —— is chimed from the projection of the numerous 
seeds, pen has a purplish olive hue. It then much resembles a 
es heslieia Abas I have not seen the ripe fruit or the 
; The segments of the limb of the calyx are 
bert rough with bristles and stalked glands, and copiously pinnate 
