GROUP OF ROSA ELLIPTICA 109 
3 together, about i in long or r le apes Bethe rite oe mooth, 
it from the elliptica and meade groups. Three other bi 
with smooth or almost smooth peduncles and sepals are known i 
Central Europe, but have ugtios distinct from R. jenensis. 
Foreign Species oF THE Group R. EGLANTERIA. 
Although the ee representatives of oe group eet 
in number, there are few, I think, which come very near the 
British forms, or he which the latter might bs mistaken 
Fi. umbellata Leers is one of the commonest Continental 
species. It is a stout 1Giiii with very stout hooked Leger often 
mixed with smaller ones and also with acicles below the inflores- 
cence, but sometimes the latter are absent. The poduioter are in 
clusters, the leaflets more hairy beneath than those of either 
F. comosa or R. apricorum, and the sepals reflexed and deciduous. 
R. prsiometrs Déségl. & Ozan. has already been — as a 
dwarf straight-prickled form of 2. comosa, with small, oval or 
elliptical obtuse leaflets, and small somewhat elongate fruit. It is 
said by its authors to replace 2. comosa in many parts of France 
as I wae it does in — 
R. 
var. albiflora Ke ™ are wii Sided ered varieties. The ‘irsk two 
wers, but without great confidence are some 
or eight similar species on the Continent, I do not feel sure which 
name our white-flowered varieties should bear. Var. Gremiti is 
, spre: 
much dansiae--o the back, and oni hispid styles. Var 
Moutinii has ve oman prickles, often, not always, with 
acicles w inflorescence, costes short peduncles, sm 
belo 
fruit, erect persistent eee and densely woolly styles. Var. 
albifl a Kell. is the exac counterpart of B. comosa, but with 
white flowers. _ 
