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indistinguishable from it. The more numerous prickles, especially 
key i 
thus: ‘ Leaflets oval, sient ose—R. permixta. Leaflets ellip- 
i i ut bo 
of the leaf-clothing and the “densely prickly” fruit is not in 
accordance with Déséglise’s. 
Rosa HYSTRIX 
Léman in Bull. de Science, Soc. Philomat. de Paris, p. 95 (1818). 
éman’s description is only part of a key, and by itself is 
quite insufficient to identify the species. e key will be found 
in full in “ The chee Eu-canine” (Journ. Bot. Suppt. 1908, 
p. 19), and is here abbreviated :— 
I. Leaves simply saa 
II. Teeth of leaves serrate on the lower side. 
II. nee with teeth abet and utile on both sides. 
. Peduncles hispid. 
* Leaves eglandular, villous beneath 
** Leaves Mpa pubescent both sides. 
andular. 
% 
lee 
% 
Ss A 
* Leaves 
i. Wout dickies . vol dd are tT Mér. 
ii. Fruit elliptic . . BR. rubiginosa Linn 
iii. Fruit elongate . . RK. histriz ae 
It will be noticed that ayn s spelling of the name histrix 
is not that universally adop 
name R. hystrix is sok Ti +s "eben use on the Continent, 
the much more modern one of R. Lemanii Bor., which its au ~ 
makes yg bene with Léman’s name, having supplanted it. 
though if Boreau’s synonymy is to be accepted, the name of 
R. hystria” must stand. 
Boreau’s description of R. Lemanii in FI. du Centre de la Fr. 
ed. 3, p. 230 (1857), is as follows :—* Shrub with h slender flexuose 
lowering-branches 
tickles hooked, leaflets small, oval or elliptica’ mubly glandalar: 
ntate, pubescent, and a Des te with glands beneath. 
smooth ot hispid at the base “lowers rose, ‘rather small. 
