80 THE BRITISH ROSES 
but more or less uncinate prickles, while some of them have much 
more densely, softly tomentose leaflets, sometimes without sub- 
foliar glands, also with villous styles, also the less important 
features of flowers in considerable clusters, subglobose fruit, 
Rosa TOMENTOSA var. WoopsIANA 
H. & J. Groves in Report Bot. Exch. Club for 1880, p. 31 (1881). 
“Bush erect, compact. Prickles slender, uniform, decidedly 
curved, those of the main stem 4-44 lines long, scar about 4 lines 
long. Leaves 24-3 in. long, and 2-24-in. broad ; petioles hairy and 
densely glandular ; leafiets elliptic, the terminal 12-15 lines long 
and 6-9 broad, thinly hairy above, and hai 
dular beneath, serratures copiously compound. Flowers 1-3. 
Peduncles and calyx-tube glandular. Sepals persistent, becoming 
erect. Corolla small, pale pink. _ Styles slightly hairy. Fruit 
ellipsoid.—A form nearly allied to R. scabriuscula, from which, 
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fruit, with decidedly erect persistent s 
Rh. fetida and R. sylvestris by its narrower much less glandular 
leaflets and hairy styles.” 
epals long, suberect, dark, very ular, considerably pinnate 
with long pinne, all persisting till at least September, when 
a egins to ripen. I have not seen them later. Styles hispid, 
_ Sometimes rather thinly so but never woolly. 
