GROUP OF ROSA EGLANTERIA 101 
Peduncles hispid-glandular, often aciculate, very rarely smooth. 
Leaflets oval or roundish obtuse, rounded or very rarely narrowed 
below r . Eg nteria. 
Peduncles smooth, rarely weakly hispid. Leaflets oblong or oblong- 
obovate, cuneate at base Group of R. elliptica. 
Peduncles hispid-glandular. Leaflets oval or elliptical acute, rarely 
3 ase Group of R. micrantha. 
Peduncles smooth. Leaflets oblong or oblong-obovate, cuneate at 
base Group of R. agrestis. 
GROUP OF ROSA EGLANTERIA. 
lora Anglica, together with BR. ca nd R. spinosissima. Bu 
in Mantissa, p. 504 (1771) he introduces the name &. rubiginosa, 
E 
e original name therefore must stand, but the de- 
finition is so vague that it is quite legitimate, and even desirable, 
to use ft. Eglanteria in an aggregate sense only. 
R. rubiginosa Linn. Mantissa, p. 504 (1771), is thus described: 
“ R. germinibus glabris petiolisque aculeatis, aculeis recurvis, folits 
subtus rubiginosis.—Branches smooth, but with scattered rather 
large recurved prickle i ovate acute, with 
ase. Peduncles with very minute prickles. Flowers purple.— 
prickles are usually more or less unequal, some parts of he 
stems usually bearing acicles. Some species mare a cluster of 
oubtedly occurs In . 
the micrantha group. From the group of R. elliptica their 
hispid pedu oader leaflets will almost alwa 
differentiate them, and these characters, taken in conjunction 
with those already mentioned, serve to mark them off from the 
agrestis group. 
