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it by the characters above quoted, it is evident that we have 
two species to deal with. Whether they are specifically yrecarvas . 
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tosa, can only be decided after much study in the field, as 
at present there is certainly some doubt as to the limits of 
R. tomentosa Sm. 
In éabglise’ s cover of R. cuspidatoides there “2 _ following 
British examples which seem to belong to tha cies rather 
than to R. pseudo-cuspidata, viz. Mr. Baker's No. 5 from se Fs 
well Dene, No. 21 from Muker, both in N. Yorks, and No. 5 
from Thornton, W. Yorl ks. 
Rosa SCABRIUSCULA ° 
Smith, Eng. Bot. t. 1896 (1810). 
“Fruit roundish ovate, bristly as well as the flower-stalks. 
Prickles awl-shaped, nearly straight. Leaflets elliptical, roughish 
scent. There is a harshness about them, even when most hairy, 
in every way unlike those of * tomentosa, neither have they the 
same ir hoary hue. ir midrib is hai The flowers, 
according to Mr. Winch, are pe ea white, tinged or blotched 
with red, and the fruit large, ‘in shape rather resembling that of 
Ri villosa than of R. tomentosa.’ I did not remark anything 
peculiar in the colour of the flowers at Bury, nor have I seen the 
fruit, but z — the germen varies in shape and in the quantity. 
of — —_ 
‘EL . 384 (1824), Smith puts scabriuscula as a variety 
B of RB. aoa without description, ut writes in his notes :— 
“8 appears at first sight a very disti net species, whose leaves are 
greener and more harsh, nearly smooth except the ribs, which are. 
hairy. Such at least is my Suffolk plant, first noticed in company 
with Sir T. Cullum and Mr. Crowe, the calyx-tube of which is 
remarkably slender. This I had in view in the eu canaei: in 
species.’ So I find them, and these conics can age sone 
to BR. _ tomentosa. They prove bok liable its pubescence 
ary.” 
It will be seen that the fap race of confusion began even 
briuscula was described, through Winch a 
