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not villous styles. Its sepals are erect, connivent, and persistent 
till the fruit ripens. 
_ collivaga Cottet also has straight prickles and eglandular 
leaflets, but its peduncles are in considerable clusters, petals fine 
rose with white claws, hispid obovoid fruit crowned by persistent 
sepals, and hispid not villous styles. 
R 
. tunoniensis Déségl. is a low-growing dense bush with long 
p. 124), except that he wrongly attributes subfoliar glands to it. 
The leaflets are eglandular, as Déséglise’s description and speci- 
mens show. Until I can say exactly how Rouy’s variety differs 
from R. Sherardi Sm. I hesitate to adopt his name. 
forms named var. globulosa have the very long peduncles and 
reflexed sepals of the tomentosa group. 
GROUP OF ROSA TOMENTOSA. 
This group includes all those species of the subsection Villose, 
in which the sepals fall before or very soon after the coloration of 
probably this is the correct view to take in scriminating between 
the two groups, but as the habit is not easily determinable in me 
