ROSA MICRANTHA 115 
Monogr. p. 114), as ere it it would be most difficult to segregate 
plants placed by him to Smith’s species from those of his own 
perminta :—* bet ay Soke eo much branched, with numerous 
small oval glabrou apr gla and- ciliate, and shorter than the 
peduncles ; ca as che ovoid-oblong, glandular, sepals glandular, 
little cut, with filiform appendages, almost exceeding the corolla, 
reflexed in flower, not persistent. Styles ey or nearly so, 
flowers aa light rose, fruit red, ovoid, rounded at base, attenuate 
at ape ers from rubiginosa in its flowering branches almost 
unarmed, its small elliptical acute leaflets, pubescent and Standish 
beneath, its small glabrous bracts shorter than the peduncles, 
ovoid- -oblong calyx-tube, glabrous styles, ovoid fruit, rounded at 
base, attenuate at apex. Differs from septicola in being much 
lower, leaflets smaller, (Blabrow erie: ovoid- Seed calyx-tube, 
ovoid ate rounded at base , abtetitus at a 
Ww; 
hispid. went tube ellipsoid, glandular at base ; sed 2 
just below the inflorescence ; leaflets seven, cane: broadly oe 
pinot at apex, slightly airy senienth petioles subglabrous, glan- 
dular and aciculate. Peduncles in a cluster of six, ac aciculate, - 
s also om calyx-tube. Styles short, quite hispid. Sepals sprea 
ns pin 
It is curious that Smith, while expressly excluding acicles in 
his description, should have admitted such a specimen as his No. 3. 
pete had, indeed, originally labelled it R. rubiginosa, which it ap- 
really ie from its hairy styles, its seven broad rounded 
leaflets, its fect! and, so far as can be judged, its calyx-tube. 
Specimens of #. sorantha, and other species in the group, un- 
rare, and this ohiklaitate is usually associated with the normal ones 
of the group. 
The normal features of F. micrantha are its uniform and rather 
few prickles, rarely with acicles at the top of the flowering 
stems, —— have seen British examples, named on good 
authority, wl | show this feature. The —_—* sigue we 
