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The leading features of the above are the somewhat curved 
prickles, short peduncles, short sepals, and central fruit somewhat 
produce ow, so as to be subpyriform. The habit and less 
more prominent secondary nerves (he does not mention glands), 
short peduncles, bright rose corolla, and, above all, by its sepals 
io disarticulating till the fruit is fully ripe. He thinks that in 
ate - ee 
Crép., though this does not seem very probable, as that is one of 
- omissa is certainly a difficult species, unless we allow a 
good deal of departure from Déséglise’s description. I have seen 
specimens from Mr. Barclay which certainly belong to this group, 
those of mollis, namely erect, connivent, narrow, much rounded 
on back, and often simple or nearly so, and even become incras- 
generally accepted a: fundamental one by which we may 
distinguish the Sherardi subgroup from those on either side of 
oes not always s the test of examination, but, after 
all, no single character in the genus ever seems to be quite 
conclusive. 
Ley records R. omissa, though rarely, from some sixteen 
English, Welsh, and Scotch vice-counties, as far south as Mont- 
gomery, also one Irish one. I have not myself. seen a specimen I 
can confidently refer to the typical plant, but do not wish it to 
be inferred that I have any doubt as to its existence in Britain. 
Rosa OMISSA var. SUBMOLLIS 
Ley in Journ. Bot. 1907, p. 205 (as a species). 
“ Bush less robust than in the preceding [R. mollis Sm.], with 
strong arching surculi. Very near R. mollis, with the thorns 
equally narrow-based but rather shorter and rather more curved; 
the leaflets broadly elliptic, hairy beneath ; the peduncles long or 
short, always straight; the sepals suberect in fruit and persistent 
