98 THE BRITISH ROSES 
scription did not appear till 1841 (Synops. Brit. Fl. p. 101) :— 
“Shoots erect, coloured, flexuose. Prickles hooked. Leaflets 
oblong, acute, hoary on each side. Sepals diverging, deciduous 
oval, acute or acuminate, very thinly hairy above, more thickly 80 
beneath, with rather numerous though rather small subfoliar 
but are difficult to see. The fruit is not formed, but the calyx- 
tube is ellipsoid, hispid-glandular. Sepals much pinnate, very 
glandular. 
tical, almost glabrous above, and not much hairy, though con- 
siderably glandular benea re is, as usual, considerable 
variation. @ specimens which agree most nearly with the 
i Tt s ch agr 
description have glabrous or thinly hairy styles. 
Rosa TOMENTOSA var. OBOVATA 
Baker, Monogr. Brit. Roses, p. 218 (1869). 
a : r. Baker's original specimens, both at Kew and 
eee Bailey’s herbarium, from Eglestone, by road to Middleton, 
