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short, with spatulate tips, oan some broad pinne, erect on ripe 
fruit, then deciduous, not much glandular on back. Styles hispid. 
. Linn. r tribe of eq n 
“ Spherocarpe. Fruit spherical,” which ear the species with 
her authors are not very explicit, but their opinions seem to 
be that R. comosa Rip. has more seer sepals than R. aprt- 
corum Rip., while Rouy distinctly says the sepals of the — 
never crown the fruit. Other leading features of R. apricor 
are its globose fruit and not very strongly hiepid-glandular 
peduncles, while 2. comosa has an Oodle: or obovoid fruit crowned 
y the persistent sepals, oe aciculate-glandular peduncles. It 
will have been seen that in Ripart’s own specimens he admits 
ovoid or even ellipsoid fruit; into his R. apricorum, but the bulk of 
the specimens have it almost or quite globose. 
Déséglise thought that the description of &. se tre ts in the 
Mantissa referred to the plant me Cc wcorum, 
while the specimen in herb. Linn. is BR. comosa. This evidently 
was not Ripart’s view, and the only subiatuebony solution seems to 
be to follow the pres of authors who only use the name 
rubiginosa Linn, (i.e. R. Eglanteria Linn.) in iis aggregate 
which make up our common British segregate, though less 
common, I think, than R. comosa 
Rosa COMOSA . 
Ripart in Schultz Arch. de la fi. de Fr. et d’Allem. p. 254 (1852). 
“Tt to the section R. rubiginosa. Scarcely has R. rubi- 
ginosa leet ee pelalopd —— ee —-* 
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