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say, without seeing a specimen, whether Fries’s variety r pantie 
belonged to mollis or not. It must be recollected that R. mollis 
is a British species founded on British material, and, in spite of 
our many mistakes, it is more probable that the British opinion 
that F. swberecta is near mollis is correct, than that of Crépin 
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all species with sepals persistent till fruit ripens. Continental 
botanists certainly include some species with such sepals in the 
os group, which accounts for Crépin’s opinion as to var. 
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I have seen specimens from E. Ross and W. Inverness only. 
Rosa CINERASCEN 
Dumortier, Florula Belgica, 4 93 (1827). 
“Prickles straightish. Leaflets simply dentate, i srt 
petioles eglandular and villous cinereous all round. - Flowers very 
few. Globose urceole and peduncles hispid glaiduley, ‘adpals 
diverging in fruit.” 
his Monog. des Roses, Fl. Belg. p. 50 (1867), he says :— 
* Prickles straight. Peticips tomentose, eglandular. Leaves ashy 
tomentose, villous below, simply dentate, ureeole subglobose. 
Sepals of fruit persistent erect.—A bush of 4 to 5 feet, with 
Prickles 
straight, dilated at base and compressed, senda scatter 
Leaves with tomentose petioles, without glands, and often without 
prickles. Leaflets oval acute, simply copier oa pn above, 
velvety and greyish beneath, with salient n Flowers rose, 
solitary or few, with pe eduncles bearing stander set, and also 
the urceole. Sepals sp reading, persistent till the fruit ripens. 
Fruit red, globular, ctuladseiiak ovoid, with aciculate sets, some- 
times glabrous.’ 
Although Dumortier makes a large aggregate of R. tomen- 
tosa, including several species of the Sherardi group, he keeps 
. cimerascens distinct, not only on account of its uniserrate 
nea but also from its eglandular. petioles and om ere soy 
leaflets, almost all ss of those on the eed ogreocset es 
aoa. two to aa aettce though there “7 some simple teeth 
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on the leaflets of the barren shoot, but even here not ad 
Saguity: This is a good example of the naabeading 
often shown by authors’ specimens, though of course scabs 
mistake in label is Laer 
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