76 THE BRITISH ROSES 
pubescent, moderately glandular, somewhat prickly. Leaflets 
rather small and somewhat close set, oval or broadly oval, sub- 
cuspidate, very finely, softly greyish hairy above, very densely so 
, many of the leaflets furnished with fairly conspicuous 
scattered glands, though some are eglandular, the secondary nerves 
very prominent, toothing rather fine. Peduncles solitary or in 
A specimen by T. B. Blow from Chapel Foot, Herts, is placed 
here by Mr. E. G. Baker. It scarcely differs except in its more 
ovoid fruit, always in clusters of two to three, but it varies from 
bovoid to suburceolate. Its collector labelled it R. mollis, doubt- 
less from its habit and general appearance. 
This variety comes very near the three preceding and the 
following species. From R. Sherardi it differs in its less falcate 
prickles, its more or less glandular leaflets, and normally its more 
ovoid fruit. From R. omissa it differs in its more falcate prickles, 
rather longer peduncles, and more often ovoid, somewhat glan- 
comparative ones only, and the supposed characteristics of each 
are by no means so well-defined as their written descriptions give 
us to understand. For example, R. omissa is by no means con- 
quite straight prickles or somewhat curved ones, and go for all 
Rosa RESINOSOIDES 
Crépin, ex Cottet, Guide du Bot. du Cant. Frib. p. 168 (1891). 
‘A tufted bush. Stems stiff, branches glaucous violet. Prickles 
unequal, straight or inclined, dilated at base, whitish on old stem, 
diverging, short, obtuse in the lower, cuspidate in the upper. 
Peduncles h in a small corymb, the central 
broad, oval, acuminate 
