70 THE BRITISH ROSES 
in the manner of R. tomentosa. The pele plant, except the 
prickles and calyx, bears more resemblance to f. villosa than to 
R. tomentosa, and is particularly remarkable a the aes globular 
half-ripe fruit.” 
There is a specimen from Davies, which is his type, from 
Anglesea, at South Kensington. It is a small piece of a flowering- 
shoot in fruit, and it therefore shows no stem prickles. 
potarey very dense Sane with” few small prickles. 
c 
the 
distinction from omentosa, accagls the fruit in this specimen 
ecidedly ovoid 
Sm fe : specimens Sie R. cine, have quite stout some- 
m-prickles. The leaflets are broadly nage seed 
isa sheet in Smith’s herbarium containing three or flay ciiane 
collected by Davies in Anglesea in 1803 (eleven years before he 
described R. She areata): The label by Davies is marked R. mollis 
has ante marked by Smith ‘RB. subglobosa,” doubtless quite cor- 
rectly. It has decidedly ovoid, somewhat glandular-hispid fruit. 
here is no doubt that R. Sherardi is very distinct from the 
tomentosa group. iets own specimens show the sepals to be 
appearance and habit. Wilson specially remarks on the greater 
persistence of the sepals = a meaty feattire from &. tomentosa, 
and there is no reason to suppose that Smith was siiatako in 
identifying his R Aulaioes with R. Sherardi, while his remark 
5 his species “more resemblance to R. villosa than to 
tomentosa seems to: euciies the plies ate ahat be. kept 
distinct from the tomentosa : 
group. 
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