16 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
ubescent a 
the lanceolate acuminate bract usually glabrous but 
. » $+ inch broad and deep, open flowers 
about 1} inch. i : 
les hairy. Fru 
~ n September, by which time most or all of the sepals have 
Mr. Baker evidently had a too glandular plant in his mind 
when he wrote the above, and in his Monograph (p. 237) he 
reduces R. Borrert to a variety of R. canina, ifying th 
description in his Review so as to make the leaflets “never more 
than faintly and sometimes very inconspicuously glandular on the 
main veins and petiole. Flowers often numerous in a cluster. . . . 
Styles thinly hairy.” He adds that it is nearer to R. tomentella 
than to any other variety 
Déséglise includes this species in his Catalogue, but does not 
describe it. He places it near R. tomentella Lém. in his key, dis- 
tinguishing it by its glabrous styles. This is incorrect: the styles 
of &. Borreri are quite as hairy as those of R. tomentella, even in 
specimens in Déséglise’s own herbarium. Cré in, in Journ. Bot. 
Fr.) is the same. If glandular peduncles were permissible in 
+ a8 some authors allow, I should absolutely 
agree with Crépin, but I am not satisfied that Léman intended to 
admit them, his key expressly stating that his tomentella, and 
three other species, have “ peduncles glabrous or naked,” instead 
of “peduncles hispid,” which appear therefore to be expressly 
sher described R. Borreri as 
