ROSA TOMENTOSA VAR. UNCINATA 79 
baw striking plant, well worthy of some such name as I hav 
roposed above, so essentially (and not merely superficially) tae 
mediate between the Tomentos@ and the tomentella-decipens amo af 
Canine is it, that if characters have any limiting value, it is v 
ferr r mu ventosa, and in 
my stent published Flora of W. Yorks p. 230) I re specially 
o the misunderstanding which has arisen oes certai ms of 
B. tomentosa _ hooked prickles’ being allocated : R. canina 
because of the uncination.” 
The following cade have been drawn from specimens kindly 
lent me by Mr. Bailey, who first a var. uncinata. ch- 
ing compact, internodes somewhat flexuose. Prickles decidedl 
stout for the group, the stoutest quite like those of R. lutetiana 
Lém., but variable in strength and size, all, except sometimes 
those near the inflorescence, at least falcate, and often uite 
bove 
somewhat more densely so, but not soft beneath, usually ap atin 
at least on secondary nerves, — aera on whole lower surface; 
ae ary teeth rather dee eep, acute cted forward, with — 
solitary, s hrees, gla 
equalling or sh oe than, — longer than, fruit, which is large, 
quite ovoid, or somewhat urceolate, sometimes almost ellipsoid, 
smooth, or slightly cisnduinecbigaick Sepals very glandular, dark 
coloured, much we spreading-erect, not falling till fruit is 
ripe at end of September or beginning of October. Styles rather 
thinly sem 
Mr. B describes the colour of the flowers as a full pink 
rather crepe in colour than in tomentosa. Dr. Lees’s description 
of the sepals does not agree with any of Mr. Bailey’s — 
and I do not know what specimens he had before him when 
ote it. 
aed Briggs aie var. uncinata to have pe very 
thos 
which it seemed to connect with 
R. Bowsers si oR. Baker ‘Crépin a at first thought it t to ra a form 
of the same grou ata, but that its hooked 
As above defined, var. wncinata appears to be a fairly ~- 
marked variety, nearest var. pseudo-moll is and R. resino. 
differing from both in its stout uncinate prickles. Mr. Ley, how 
ever, associates with it many forms which have little in 
