ROSA TOMENTOSA VAR. SYLVESTRIS 97 
“Mr. Webb’s ae aE Cheshire plant, which had robust uncinate 
prickles, flowers often 6-10 in a cluster, and broad cordate leaflets” 
(Baker, Monogr. p. 218). But Mr. Baker confounded other plants 
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other Cheshire specimens, to be the same. These latter are the 
specimens he refers to as “ the average of the variety, as repre- 
sented in my fasciculus, differing principally from scabriuscula by 
canna as 3 Lindley’ s scarey Here again he is eee to his 
‘average ’’ specimens and not to the oral one of Webb’s, and 
there is no doubt that Pais ec -_ right, FR. hid and var. 
sylvestris being ve nearly ident 
Webb’s “ original” plant was pret ae by the bridge over the 
Greasby Brook, near Moreton, Cheshire, and has since been found 
by costar Lewis in two neighbouring localities, from which 
I have seen examples in Mr. Bailey’s herbarium, but none from 
nis other counties densictng by Mr. Ley in Journ. Bot. 1907, 
The Cheshire specimens are characterized by the number = 
remarkable size and stoutness of the prickles on their main stem 
and barren shoots. 7 are declining or falcate, rarely pncinbes 
The leaflets also are very large, ile a good deal in shape from 
at are strongly armed with —_— so pe oul hooked 
prickles, many stalked glands, but not much h The peduncles 
are long and many in a cluster, eteeenaby icidetinebiepia; fruit 
0 ee very glandular-hispid, with loosely reflexed, broad, flat, 
coloured sepals, with many glands on the back, and consider- 
ably pinnate, not falling ee all retained on the 17th August, 
the latest I have seen. Styles quite glabrous. 
R. Findaiiana Baker mi, might be regarded as exceedingly 
_— developed R. fatida, but I aan it deserves to be kept 
separate. It is at least — different to var. sylvestris Woods, 
and, as already explained, is n rare wre intended by Déséglise 
to be covered by bis R. stan 
RosA TOMENTOSA Var. SYLVESTRIS 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. p. 202 (1817). 
Receptacle a long ellipsis, as setose on the peduncle; pe- 
— shorter than the bractes; aculei faleate; leaflets nar- 
wer than in a, slightly ———— above, hairy and rough with 
vinade on under side; surculi 
This is often quoted as R. sylvestris Lindl., but Lindley’s de- 
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