86 THE BRITISH ROSES 
cerulea. It is rather meas and scrappy. va prickles are 
nabaaeatehy stout, curved or straightish, from ilated bases. 
Leafiets small and close set, fen or elliptical, eabbbame. shallowly 
—— ate, the denticles ca reduced to sessile 
33 beneath and apparently oa finely glandular, but this 
difficult to see on account of the density of the tomentum, 
Petioles densely finely tomen ntose, scarcely glandular, and no 
much en ickly. Stipules densely hairy both sides, finely gl landulr 
on back, with acuminate auricles. Peduncles solitary or tw 
together, quite alia; not longer than fruit, apparently faite 
smooth and glabrous. Fruit small, subglobose or ovoid subpyri- 
form. Sepals entire or ~eon so, spreading-erect, one -hispid, 
not much longer than fruit. Styles densely villou 
Déséglise at first confounded this species with h BR. farinulenta 
Crép., but afterwards rectified his mistake, but besides Hailstone’s 
does not in the least resemble the descriptions in respect to colour 
and clothing of leaflets, and it is quite possible that Keller takes 
the 
© CO view in Stace Kerner’s species to a form of B. corit- 
folia and not to R. farinosa 
Foreign Species ofr tHe Group R. SHERARDI. 
Owing to the ——. of opinion as to the limits of the 
thay as well as to those of the species, it is difficult to select 
any foreign species whi os canis more likely — others to 
found i in Britain, but ope following deserve mentio 
its somewhat biserrate leafiets an 
fe. dwmosa, which, however, has deciduous ooo Ordpin felt pers 
ts eglan- 
» quite hidden by hei bracts, 
large, elongate-ellipsoid, and hispid 
