92 THE BRITISH ROSES 
peduncles 1 to 38, about twice as long as fruit, which is quite 
ovoid, occasionally almost ellipsoid, never subglobose, generally 
hispid-glandular. Styles hispid or thinly so. ; 
__ There are ten British specimens in this cover in herb. Déséglise, 
gr 
more doubtfully No. 29 from Westhoe, N. Yorks. It is probably 
our commonest of those forms of the tomentosa group which 
would fall under Smith’s aggregate. 
Rosa CUSPIDATOIDES 
Crépin in Bull. Soe. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxi. p. 94 (1882). 
“This form, which I haye separated from the R. cuspidata of 
French authors, is distinguished chiefly by its broad oval leaflets, 
its flowering receptacles and fruit subglobose or globose, and its 
fine rose flowers. It actually represents a group of varieties which 
might well be subdivided.” © 
Keller, in Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Mitteleur. p. 88, credits it with 
large fruit, that of R. pseudo-cuspidata being small, and with 
densely hairy or woolly styles. He adds that it is especially a 
northern and eastern variety, wale Se; . 
_ As has already been pointed out, Crépin had formerly applied 
the name of R. cuspidatoides to R. cuspidata auct. gall. non Bieb., 
but as he had already called the latter R. pseudo-cuspidata, and 
