128 THE BRITISH ROSES 
glandular and hairy ciliate appendages, Se the acedia 
reflexed on green fruit, then deciduous. Styles short, glabrous or 
feebly hispid. Disc flat. Corolla about 1} ee white. Fruit 
medium, roundish i te or globose.” 
medium, globose. Sepals somal ieinti pinnate, wisimons on back, 
except on pinne and appendages, which are hirsute, mostly 
fallen by er ? August, and all by ek sentem mber. The 
have tdeodacat this species into our list on the strength of 
a specimen gathered by the Rev. E. S. Marshall at Uphill, N 
Somerset (No. 3103), and so named by Prof. Dingler. Its ioe 
features are its more hairy leaflets, often hairy above, very 
pubescent petioles, and rather large e subglobose or broudie ceaid 
fruit. I have seen ee ree atage specimens from Witley, Surrey, 
and Llandudno, Carnarv 
There are two or ieee other British ape which by their 
hairy leaves might be associated with R. belne 
fi. agrestis var. subcuneata Rouy is a staat which has been 
given by Prof. Dingler to examples from Llys-y-Gwynt, Carnar- 
von, and Hog’s Back, Surre rrey, which differ in their somewhat 
less hairy leaflets, and ovoid-oblong or ellipsoid fruit. Its author 
brackets it with R. arvatica esr which he considers to differ in 
its broader leaflets and frui The latter species ~ alread 
been mentioned in my cb on the Eu-canine (p. 24). It is : 
species over which there has been great confusion in Britain 
Mr. B ! 
and MS. but unfortunately unpublished description. Puget’s 
name, however, is retained on the Continent to cover segregates 
of &. agrestis with larger, broader, and more hairy leaflets. 
Messrs. Groves’s specimens from the aye Back, Surrey, agree 
very well with le ea own specimens of R. arvatica, to which 
were referred by Déséglise, but as pane name is an invalid 
pre set should te left for the present under an aggregate 
A specimen | from Somerton, N. Somerset, collected by the 
Rey. E. S. Marshall (No. 31 109) with the very small leaflets of 
fi. sepium, but hairy, and tie oblong fruit, has been na 
agrestis var. elegans by Prof. Dingler. It may be seeded as 
1-leaved form of R. belnensis. 
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