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at base. Petioles glandular, villous, prickly, prickles straightish. 
Stipules glandular-ciliate. Leaflets 5-7, oblong, unequally serrate, 
acuminate, flat, smaller than in &. Eglanteria, glabrous above or 
with adpressed hairs, glandular-rubiginose beneath, with straight 
resinous hairs, plainly scentless (inodoris). Peduncles lateral and 
terminal, solitary, quite glabrous. Flowers smaller than in 
Eglanteria. Germen oblong, glabrous. Calyx-leaves subglabrous, 
reflexed. Petals obovate, white. Fruit oblong-ovate, purple, 
smooth. Flowers in July.” 
There is a scrap from Fries at South Kensington. Its puch 
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arrowed below, but not conspicuously so, densel glandular 
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oval-elliptical, less narrowed at the base, midribs a little pubes- 
cent, the upper surface sometimes pubescent, but soon becoming 
glabrous, petioles glabrous or soon becomin so, fruit rather large, 
ovoid or roundish ovoid, and styles hispid. He adds that the 
leaves are not inodorous, as Fries states, but plainly scented, 
especially in damp weather. He has not seen anything from 
Britain to match it. I do not know whether he has seen the 
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broadly oval leaflets, glabrous and thinly glandular all over 
beneath, peduncles in threes, almost 1 in. ong, sepals reflexed 
with many broad pinne, and quite short hispid styles. It does 
not look at all like an agrestis form. 
The first notice of this species as a British plant was made by 
Mr. Baker in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club for 1866, wherein he said a 
specimen from Brean Down, Somerset, of which he gave the 
ata f notes, resembled it very closely :—* Prickles falcate, uni- 
the apex of the terminal et, which is elli obovate, 
narrowed to se, and measures about 15 lines long by 9 li 
road. oles hairy and densely setose. tip bract 
landular and rather hairy on the back. Pedicels and gracefully 
ovate-urceolate calyx-tube quite n : ng, 
on the back with a long narrow point, and two or 
small linear gland-ciliated pinne on si in texture, 
shape, and glandulosity resemble th sepium, not can 
und ty 3 e those of ; Uy, canina. 
__ _ From sepium it differs in its more robust habit, the larger size of 
all its parts, and the slight hairiness of its leaves, stipules, and 
