72 THE BRITISH ROSES. 
then erect connivent. Calyx-tube glabrous, obovoid, attenuate at 
base. Styles villous. Disc short and little salient. Flowers 
fine rose. Fruit large, red, glabrous, rounded at apex, sensibl 
LI c . 
fruit, its leaflets glandular beneath, its very short peduncles and 
bracts, its fine rose flowers easily distinguish it from R. tomentosa 
and FR. subglobosa.” : 
Déséglise has about thirty sheets in his herbarium. Regarding 
them comprehensively, together with those at Kew the species 
may be either rounded or elongate. Leaflets just as in mollis, but 
on the whole not only a little smaller but somewhat narrower in 
proportion, less often obtuse or rounded at apex, and more often 
quite acute but not acuminate, also less rounded below; clothing 
also as in mollis, but as a rule with subfoliar glands, sometimes 
many, and always at least on secondary nerves, though the glands 
are often small and fine, Toothing perhaps a little finer, but very 
like that of mollis. Petioles perhaps more often with small prick- 
lets, their glands always shortly stipitate or subsessile ; stipules 
road with broadly triangular, or more often acuminate auricles, 
often quite dentate on the edge, often hairy above, and densely 
glandular on -the back. Peduncles 1 to 4, often equalling and 
p bo at the insertion of th duncle, 
but hardly pyriform, quite often slightly but seldom much hispid- 
ndular. Sepals differi 
indular. Y difering from those of mollis, except in 
‘Shorter, seldom longer than the fruit, Only four specimens 
have ripe frui 
t, the date of gathering varying from Sept. 4th to 
- On these, as well as on the whole of the other specimens, 
all the sepals persist, either erect or spreading. Styles like th 
__ of mollis, dise quite decided. 
