124 THE BRITISH ROSES 
Rosa sEPIUM 
Thuillier, Fl. des env. de Paris, p. 252 (1799). 
“Rather tall. Branches armed all over with recurved prickles. 
Leaflets mostly seven, small, oval acute, with scattered glands be- 
neath, as well as on petioles. Oblong-ovate fruit and peduncles 
smooth.” 
Déséglise’s description in Ess. Monogr. p. 103 is as follows:— 
‘A tall shrub, branched, with long pendent or erect branches, 
very prickly, with scattered unequal prickles, dilated at the base, 
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glands beneath, obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, serrate, with 
teeth charged with glands; stipules narrow, glabrous above, 
glandular beneath, auricles little diverging; peduncles glabrous, 
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solitary or combined into a corymb, furnished at their base with 
beneath, and its glandular petioles. It differs from R. rubiginosa 
in its less robust prickles, its leaflets acute at both ends, glabrous 
both sides, only charged with viscous glands beneath, its glandular, 
not glandular-pubescent petioles, and its peduncles and calyx- 
tube always glabrous, never hispid.” 
Déséglise has three small pieces of Thuillier’s own gathering, 
which were given to him by Boreau. They are too scrappy to 
show prickle characters. Their leaflets are five, small, and 
narrowly elliptical, about 2 in. long by }-,3, in. wide, much 
narrowed at the base, somewhat less so at the apex, acute, finely 
biserrate, subglabrous or with a few scattered hairs and some fine 
glands above, thinly hairy chiefly on midrib, and finely glandular 
Petioles sh 
all 
densely glandular, with small acicles. Stipules pubescent, slightly 
Peduneles soli in. to 2 in. long. 
glan on back. tary, } in. 2 
Calyx-tube ellipsoid, about as long as the peduncles. Sepals 4 in. 
th on back what glandular-ciliate 
