106 THE BRITISH ROSES 
ular setee, maxed with prickles two or three times as long as the 
sete and not glandular, furnished at the base with oval cuspidate 
bracts, glabrous above, charged with glands beneath, with glan- 
dular edges ; calyx-tube ...; sepals villous and charged like the 
ruit large, roundish ovoid, 
hispid with elongate prickle-like sete, as long as one-third the 
diameter of the fruit, not gland-tipped.” 
he leading features of this species, as distinguished from the 
two foregoing, are its mixed stem armature i 
Out of about twenty specimens in herb. Déséglise, only one 
be part. It is a small specimen in poor 
condition, but except for its remarkably mixed armature, agrees 
one or two being also considerably glandular above, finel 
pu nt and densely glandular beneath, petioles closely pube- 
scent, glandular ric Stipules o dium width, gla- 
orickly. 
brous, somewhat glandular on back, auricles acuminate. Pedun- 
cles in threes, of medium length, glandular-hispid, and with 
long eglandular acicles. Fruit large, ovoid, aciculate, but hardly 
ri = ie Dap. The sepals have fallen, Styles stout, 
ispi 
ous, which is so rare 
