ROSA BORRERI 15 
GROUP OF ROSA BORRERI. 
Key to Britisu Species AND VARIETIES.* 
1! Peduncles glandular or at least hairy ............... R. Borrert Woods, 
| Peduncles glabrous and eglandular 2 
Leaflets hairy above at least when young, more or as densely hairy 
beneath. Stipules R. tomentella Lém, 
a ey. — above, hairy only on Seine beneath. Sti- 
= ules glabro 3 
peer ts broad ‘ly deat acute + 
par yes elliptical, or narrowly oval, acuminate 5 
“at rather small, fully biserrate, decidedly socal on veins 
R. 
2 
3 
nit Déségl. & Gil. 
Leaflets large, subsimply serrate, thinly hairy “midrib only or sub- 
ar. Nicholsont Christ. 
ay hairy on side nerves. Fruit subglobose, Styles thinly 
. sclerophylla Scheutz. 
ts thi rous R, arvatiea Baker. 
Rosa Borrekri. 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. P- 210 sols 
aR idular wit 
linear, glandular-serrate, hardly glandular beneath, the upper 
broader, eventually running into ovate lanceolate bracts. Leafle 
7, dark green, shining, ovate elliptical or rhomboidal elliptical, flat, 
biserrate, glandular-toothed, mostly hirsute both sides, but es 
ally beneath. Peduncles 1-— 16, 9 vith weak sete or white hairs or 
Flowers flesh or reddish. Styles included. Stigmas flattish, Fruit 
ellipsoid rarely subglobose, deep red.—Leaves usually very dark, 
Differs from R. colina mainly in its biserrate, 
broader and d flatter leaves, and calyx much more divided.” 
Mr. Baker Sones de p. 20) keeps this as a species, distinct 
from bas canina group, oe he includes R. tomentelia. ie 
inch, full and deep green above, and thinly hairy w when young 
t eron when ald pale beneath, hairy chiefly on veins and 
ust be borne in mind that this and other a 
are ace not pre up to sealnae foreign species, as 
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