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and hairy peduncles. Keller does not mention the latter feature, 
which may not be an important one; many species, at least 
among the Hu-canine, have a little fine hair on their peduncles. 
There are six sheets in herb. Déséglise, none British, but five 
gathered by Puget, one of them eine Billot’s Exsicc. No. 3594, 
which appears to be regarded as the type. It has very stout 
prickles ; = enna small, narrow wed at the base, rounded at the 
petioles ener pubescent, glandular, with very small prtnkles. 
; i aR 
we its allies at ten paces distance by its rusty co 
onogr. 22 this as a "gatlety of 
R. septate; and describes it thus: :— Prickles of the main stem 
of the type, but only slightly hooked. Leaflets smaller; the 
terminal one 9-12 lines long by three-quarters as broad, obovate 
naked ; calyx-tube narrowly ovate-urceolate; the sepals, like those 
of micrantha, lengthened out at the point, but only sparingly 
ie ; the styles hairy; the fruit ovate-urceolate, 7-8 lines 
eep 
There is a specimen at Kew from Bidford, Warwick, by Bree, 
which is pernaee not the same gathering as that seen by Mr. 
e name is sometimes spelt Balletii, even by Gre répin himself 
in his later oe but the original spelling is Billetiz, after 
Cardinal Billiet 
Rosa CRYPTOPODA 
Baker, Review of Brit. Roses, p. 22 (1864). 
“Prickles somewhat unequal, the larger ones uncin d 
moderately robust below. Leavy om 3-34 in. long from base 
to nal leaflet, which is ovate or elliptic, either 
rounded or somewhat wed towards base, and meas’ 
more than 1 in. long by 2 in. wide. Leaflets greyish or glaucous 
green, glabrous on upper surface, still greyer beneath, hairy only 
on midrib and principal veins, but thinly scattered all over with 
green viscous glands, the serrations open vet ate deep, ea 
furnished with several fine nes oe teeth, niegeer pube- 
