116 THE BRITISH ROSES 
Rosa PERMIXTA 
Déséglise, Ess. Monogr. p. 107 (1861). 
narrow appendages, fringed with pedicellate glands, reflexed in 
flower, then erect, not connivent, deciduous before maturity ; 
styles glabrous, disc a little salient, flowers rose, fruit ovoid, gla- 
brous, red.—This ig fi. rubiginosa of those authors who 
eatirt their plant with ovoid fruit, while Linneus said ‘ germini- 
sts.” *" 
Déséglise has about twice as many specimens of R. permixta 
in his herbarium as he has of R. micrantha, but in very many 
seemed in doubt as to which species to place them to. He 
iti s Surrey specimen, which 
ir; peduncles 1-6, rather short; fruit ovoid or urceolate; 
sepals thinly glandular on the back, a good deal pinnate, fallen by 
Oct. 2nd. Many of his ae specimens have their leaflets nar- 
tha un. elow, sometimes very decided so. 
The fruit is usually smooth or nearly so. a 
__ This species is very near indeed to R. micrantha, and is often 
