1 THE BRITISH ROSES 
copiously setoso-ciliate. Petals deep red, the flower measuring 
vi 
size, rather close set, oval, glabrous above, thinly hairy all over 
beneath, but chiefly on the nerves, thinly scattered with fine 
inconspicuous glands beneath, not at all like the conspicuous 
petioles finely pubescent almost eglandular, unarmed: peduncles 
short, about 4 in.; sepals erect after fall of petals in July, short 
and not much pinnate, not gland on the back. Fruit (in 
men y is t , and in view of the fact that an 
unnamed duplicate thereof is placed by Déséglise to this sub- 
section, and f the Hu-cani here 
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provisionally. But Déséglise, strangely enough, does not place 
it with any of the species of the present group, with which its 
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its true position — remain doubtful. It is not recogniz 
or. 
Specimen bears much resemblance to speci- 
- tmodora Hook., another species of doubtful 
