78 THE BRITISH ROSES 
brings it very near var. ie gegen mollis. Déséglise’s No. 75, which 
he quotes in Cat. Raison. p. 326, as a typical ersiccata, is indistin- 
guishable from pseudo a even in prickle characters and few- 
ness of subfolia: 
ere are hoe British specimens in Déséglise’s herbarium. 
Mr. Baker’s No. 18, from hedges between Thirsk and Woodend, 
labelled F. tomentosa auct. angl., has very few, but stout, slightly 
finely glandular, sometimes not more than microglandular ; 
petioles densely pubescent, a good deal pantniay and with few 
sma — ; Stipules narrow, w ow lanceolate auricles, 
prickles ; leaflets rather oe elliptical, acute or somewhat acumi- 
nate; petioles and stipules as e, but peduncles ge and 
fruit rather more settec sepals ‘enn longer and more conni- 
vent, fruit varying 7 ovoid to globose on the same sonia 
ahaa villous. No. 19, from Hornby, N. Yorks, has much more 
ckl 
acute, and oes more hairy, the epee gland $ more con- 
Rosa TOMENTOSA var. UNCINATA 
F. A. Lees in Report Bot. Record Club for 1884-6, p. 123 (1887). 
“The fruits were mostly ripe when the specimens were 
the 
uit, gland-setose as well as mya cles, had shana deep r 
e prisklon on both young shoots and old stems have ‘broad 
action very uncinate (quite as in rubiginosa) and 
size Tho leaflets are oblong oval, scabriuscula- or mollissima-like 
in gene , hairy above, aga (very) and on periees [sie], , 
moderate in size, and in then cr respects like our post ae 
tosa. vty Rowen appear to be 2 ye in twos and threes, but 
As oes the above, though I have not thought it desirable 
- edieeits haces n itself, Dr. Lees writes (I. c.):—t A 
