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coe exclude R. fetida Bast., - Lomein Sm., and their 
allies, which, as a rule, also have m oe styles and — 
pbdumibles. and might almost form a ena subgroup. 
British list, R. cuspidatoides Crép. and R. pouioeuseaee! ‘Orép. 
are very closely allied to and must be associated with an aggre- 
gate Re. tomentosa as a ubenale but there are other well-marked 
British forms, several of which are very close to those which have 
received Continental names, but shan it is difficult to identify 
rg aween There is no doubt that the whole group of 
tomentosa is capable of further subdivision 1 in Britain. 
Rosa PSEUDO-CUSPIDATA 
Crépin in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xi. p. 89 (1872) (sine 
| deseript.). 
Crépin gave no description in the work quoted, but suggested 
the name for the plant erroneously called RB. cu spidaia M. Bieb. 
in France. Déséglise’s description of R. euspidata in Rey. Tomen- 
tose, p. 8 (1866) refers to me French plant, and not to that of 
Bieberstein. It is as follow 
‘A low, branching shrub, wit rather strong, whitish, scattered 
prickles, those of the stem dilated at the base, a little curved at 
the tip, those of the young branches roundish at the base, hori- 
zontal. Petioles glandular-villous, - er fot fiets 5-7, the 
lateral petioluled, terminal rounded at the base, more or less 
attenuate or acute at the apex, [the lateral] getter broad, oval-lan- 
ceolaie, more or less obtuse, or more or less attenuate at the apex, 
more or less pubescent above, whttish, softly villous, and sprinkled 
with glands beneath, stn dentate with ee teeth. Stipules 
landul 
pubescent above, pubescent and glandular beneath, the upper 
dilated, auricles — rorpi: Peduti¢las hispid, solitary, or 
more or less numerous, 3 to 10 in a corymb, furnished at their 
e with oval Seomdnaks: pubescent bracts; which also bear 
scattered gla on their backs, equalli r t 
peduncle. Calyx-tube ovoid, on te Sepals tomentose within, 
gland ar on ne es apex, two ie three pin- 
pedicellate oan ae rods corolla, reflexed, cis erect and 
deciduous. Styles. hispid disc flat. Flowers rose, becoming 
whitish. Fruit ovoi 7 
The true R. cuspidata M. Bieb. comes from the Caucasus. It 
is much more glandular, and appears to be closely related to, if 
not actually a member of, the & sponitd Crépin, who had seen 
an author’s specimen of R. cuspidata, realized that the French 
plant was not that species, aie first proposed for the latter the 
name of R. cu. atoides, gi a description in — stud. 
ofr de Skand. arten of n of alg. toy ct 37 BF (S72) in Scandinavian, 
which he re Bot. Belg. xi. p. 127 
(1872), asi ed Petckion of stem a ame a little falcate. 
Leaflets 5-7, ovate, elliptical-oblong or rere tomen- 
tose, rarely ashy, W with scattered glands beneath, doubly serrate. 
