118 THE BRITISH ROSES 
flexed in flower, not persistent. St g 
into a short column, disc flat, Flowers rather small, rose. Fruit 
leaflets, glabrous bracts, calyx-tube someti 
the sepals falling earlier, glabrous styles, small flowers and 
roundish ovoid fruit.” 
e R. Klukii referred to by Déséglise is a species of Besser’s, 
which has been much misunderstood. It appears to connect 
R. elliptica with R. Eglanteria. 
ere is a small and very unsatisfactory piece of R. hystrix at 
Kew, from Gay’s herbarium, to whom it was sent by Léman. 
is the slender and much-branched end of an old and weak 
flowering-stem. Its two prickles are rather slender and only 
moderately curved. Its leaflets are five, oval or broadly so, sub- 
cuneate at the base, with curly white hairs above, not densely 
hairy nor very glandular beneath; toothing coarse. Petioles 
rather densely pubescent, not very glandular, and scarcely at all 
prickly. Peduncles solitary, about } inch. Fruit very sm 
apparently abortive, ovoid, thinly glandular-hispid. Sepals re- 
flexed. Styles glabrous, short. 
Déséglise’s No. 71, which he cites in Cat. Rais. p. 293, has 
rather stout, moderately hooked prickles. Leaflets rather small, 
elliptical, rather decidedly narrowed below, subacute at the apex, 
acutely biserrate, hairy only on midrib beneath. Petioles sub- 
uricles. 
, hispid-glandular, short or medium. The fruit is very small 
and ovoid, but appears abortive, as in Léman’s specimen. Most 
of Déséglise’s specimens have it subglobose. The are & 
_ good deal pinnate, not much glandular on the back, re , and 
