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normally globose, though Mr. Barclay has sent me a series with 
them quite ovoid. 
to distinguish it from R. resinosoides. 
Rosa TOMENTOSA var. PSEUDO-MOLLIS 
E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 341. 
‘Stem short, suberect, prickles slightly or sometimes decidedly 
curved, leaves intensely downy, covered with dense pubescence, 
with hardly any glands on the under surface, doubly serrated ; 
pedicels straight, hispid, fruit subglobose or ellipsoidal, not ripen- 
ing in the Midland counties till the end of September; three sepals 
more or less pinnately divided; sepals not leafy at the point, 
glandular at the back, spreading, deciduous.” 
This variety has appeared under three names. Its author 
placed it as a variety of R. tomentosa, which was quite in accord- 
ance with our knowledge of the subsection Villose at that time, 
changed again before long. 
Mr. E. G. Baker, who first gathered var. aie Sagan on the 
om 
group. Mr. ; 
having no subfoliar glands except on the midrib, but there is no 
doubt about their presence elsewhere on the lower surface, bot 
on Mr. Baker’s type-specimen and on specimens In Mr. Ley’s — 
herbarium from the original bushes. 
Specimens from these bushes have numerous, rather stout, 
straight or curved, sometimes quite falcate, not hooked 
prickles. Stipules densely pu nt, usually glandular, wider 
- upwards, but with acute auricles. Petioles densely but shortly 
