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e above description is amplified and modified in Eng. FI. 
384, (1824), thus :—“Stem 6 feet high or more, pee pra 
ae shy, with round, brownish, prickly, but otherwise smoot 
naked branches. Prickles often two near together under the ir in- 
sertion of each leaf, besides a few scattered solitary ones, all 
slender and awl-shaped, in some degree curved, but with no very 
great dilatation at the base, srt are they a ere and sat 
shaped like the species of the next section [R. Sherardi, R. ru 
genosa, Ee. canina, &e.]. Leaflets 5 or 7, ovate or slightly site, 
mostly acute at the extremity and somewhat pointed, their se 
tion double, acute, and glandular, both surfaces usually honey 
soft, and downy, with a slight resinous scent, wri under one more 
or less glandular. Footstalks downy, sometimes beset with many 
hooked prickles, as well as copious gisidulad Pristlis. Stipules 
linear, downy, with a densely glandular point, the uppermos 
ecoming broad, ovate, pointed bracte. Flower-stalks capreed 
2 or 3 togethe r, often solitary, seldom 4, longer or shorter than 
the nia clothed plentifully with glandular bristles of saridtll 
lengths. e of the calyx elliptical — sometimes almost 
peers a ‘aa covered a with glandular bristles, 
which are more crowded about the base, but occasionally it is 
quite smooth. Two segments ths the very bristly limb and one 
side of a third ming pinnate, with as long leafy acute ‘aioe 
and glandular leafits in any species whatever. Petals light 
red, white in their eet half, sometimes-white blotched with red. 
Fruit scarlet, generally bristly, broadly elliptical, retaining the 
limb of the calyx, either s spreading or reflexed till quite ripe, when 
the latter usually falls off.” 
mith’s later description differs from his first in three impor- 
tant particulars. The prickles, wiry he — deseribed as 
hooked (aduncis), are now only “in some de, urved,” the 
adjective ‘‘awl-shaped” also giving pies idea that es are nearly 
straight. The leaflets also are more or less glandular ben eath, 
and the sepals are spreading or reflexed but persistent. The two 
latter characters may perhaps be regarded as additions, not 
alterations, but there must either have been some error of obser- 
sau on Smith’s part with regard to the sepals, or he had more 
ne species before him when he made his description. I 
a eat seen a rose with sepals reflexed and yet persistent till 
the fruit is ripe, and Mr. Ley and Mr. Barclay, whose knowledge 
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