men gathered by Hailstone near - 
ROSA FARINOSA 85 
great affinity with ven preceding [R. hispida], but is essentially 
en It is 45 feet high, and forms a short densely-branc hed 
us 
Ss name. 
Frankonia. The stem is red-brown, but the you 
shining pale green, with soir; slender, short, ae straight, 
but slightly declining prickles. The pores have quite white, 
densely hairy, — t silky petioles, with some red prickles on 
the under side, channeled beneath (wnten) yah sharply-pointed 
stipules, densely tates on edges, and with some red glands on the 
back. Leaflets 7, oval, bluntly pointed, with sharp well-defined 
teeth, ciliate with hairs, covered with slender hairs above, finely 
like 
velvet. The I t pair are exceptionally small, the terminal 
se cages wad arses the lateral pairs all sessile. The flowers are 
emargina ‘ioe cotetab.. fruit becomes oe inflated, 
shining, ia red, black on oe ans of winter.’ 
Rau (I. c.), after quoting Bechstein’s first diagnosis, pee some 
ee eer do not differ essentially from those of Bech ; but 
he says of the leaflets, “‘ whitish villous on both sides, ce ‘soft, 
silky shining above, glandular on midrib and nerves benea 
” “He also says the aunala are glabrous above and 
pabisoent at — hig sepals are eglandular on the back, and 
als 4 to 3 in 
~Pae a i ty othet authors, as in most species, vary a good 
e ree in attributing dense shi 
pubescence to the upper surface of ue leaflets, although Bechstein 
himself called them ‘‘d hi mention subfoliar 
gree Som 
glands, Christ crediting it with many, though its oes does not 
mention them at all. Rédouté, in Roses, iii. t. 147, shows v: ih 
8 
es leaflets, and in ii. p. 41 remarks that they appar wines 
a distance, which led Bechstein to give it its name. 
oattions mentioned by Bechstein I therefore con is ot to 
osity. oul 
like sta but it is ea to M8 5 pa = aat he meant, 
as he speaks of the lustre after the mealiness is rubbed off.. 
This species is included in our list on Cae b simone oF speci- 
sams by. Déckelise: hough Mr. Bakor ‘had | abelled it B. 
