114 THE BRITISH ROSES : 
Key to Britisn Speciss. 
Peduneles smooth. Leaflets large, broadly oval, thinly glandular 
beneath var. Briggsti Baker. 
Peduneles glandular hispid 
(ai long, straightish, often with fine acicles on stem. Leafl 
broad R 
ets 
her large and . sylvicola Déségl. 
Prickles uniform, hooked. Leaflets oval or Gliplion)= isis: ek. 3 
Leaflets small and narrow, cuneate at base. Fruit small, broadly 
ovoid or subglobose . hystrix Lém. 
Leaflets broader, rounded at base, or if somewhat cuneate, then 
larger. Fruit ovoid, ellipsoid, or suburceolate 
Flowering branches prickly. Fruit usually smooth. Leaflets oval, 
subglabrous, or only slightly hairy beneath... R. permizxta Déség). 
4, Flowering hes unarmed or nearly so. ruit often hispid. 
Leaflets eliiptical, pubescent all over beneath, or or least on the 
secondary nerves . micrantha 8m. 
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Rosa MICRANTHA 
Smith, Eng. Bot. tab. 2490 (1812). 
“ Fruit oval, somewhat bristly as well as the footstalks. Stem 
straggling, with scattered hooked prickles. Leaflets ovate acute, 
clothed beneath with rusty glands. Mr. Borrer observes that it is 
species. It varies in roughness. The footstalks and backs of the 
leaves are downy as well as glandular.” 
Smith gives a somewhat fuller description in Eng. Fl. ii. p. 387, 
hus :—“ Branches much more weak and slender than the last 
fi. rubiginosa). Prickles fewer, either solitary or in pairs under 
the leaves and young branches, rarely in any other part, nor are 
there any small and straight ones interspersed. Leaflets broadly 
oval, acute, of a rather deeper green than in R. rubigi 
neck ; its surface in so 
though the prickles thereabouts are not so gas they are in 
rubiginosa. paige of limb not very much pinnate, falling off as 
by Déséglise in Ess. Monogr. p. 115, under 
the name of R. micrantha Sm., 2 not that of Smith. but a much 
every respect. The description which applies 
d under the name of R. nemorosa Lib. 
313, 1813), which is now regarded as synony- 
sglise’s description of the latter in full (Ess. 
