102 THE BRITISH ROSES 
Key To Britis Sprcizs. 
Peduncles smooth R. jenensis M. Schulze. 
Peduncles hispid-glandular . 
Main prickles considerably unequal, all or many straight, or if hooked, 
not strong. eaflets small 
Main prickles uniform or nearly so, stout and hooked. Leaflets 
medium (R. rubiginosa auct.) 4 
fee all straight or only slightly curved, slender. Styles villous. 
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ruit smooth or nearly 80 ........cecceeeeee var. rotundifolia Rau. 
Prickles very numerous, the larger hooked. Styles hispid. Fruit 
hispid-glandular all over . i. echinocarpa Rip. 
Fruit subglobose. Peduncles hispid. Sepals erect or spreading but 
falling early .... : } i 
Fruit ovoid, crowned by persistent sepals. Peduncles aciculate _ 
R. comosa Rip. 
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Rosa APRICORUM 
Ripart in Déséglise Cat. Raisonné, p. 279 (1876). 
‘A tall, tufted, branched shrub, charged with numerous robust 
dentate with glandular teeth; stipules narrow, glabrous above, 
glandular beneath, fringed with glands, auricles acute divergent ; 
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peduncles solitary 
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bear aci that part, and they are mentioned 
’s description. Most of the flowering-branches in Ripart’s 
uite Petioles thinly pubescent, 
ual 
occasionally thinly so all over, 
ver lower surface. Peduncles 1-3, 
even ellipsoid on one specimen, and 
or nearly so. Sepals rather 
