18 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
impossible to generalize from them, and it is evident that the 
species has been much misunderstood, ere are specimens in 
herb. Déséglise from Hayes and Chelsfield, West Kent, collected 
by Messrs. Groves, and labelled by them R. micrantha. Their 
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of five or six. I think Déséglise is right in referring this to 
R. ert rather than to R. micrantha, though the exceptionally 
glandular leaflets take it towards the latter species. In most 
specimens the glands, though more numerous than in R. tomen- 
tella, are equally inconspicuous. 
_ Tappend the description of R. tomentella var. decipi 
given by its author in Bulletin de la Soc. Roy. de Bot. de Belgique, 
p. 57 (1867), and a few notes thereon, but, as already stated, I 
regard it as synonymous with R. Borreri :— 
‘Leaves hairy on nerves beneath, the secondary eglandular. 
Peduncles aciculate glandular.” 
Mr. Baker, in his Monograph of British Roses, p. 233, places 
Rosa TOMENTELLA Léman. 
At the expense of space I give verbatim the key ee. by 
Léman in one de Science par la Société Phi 
whic i 
British list. No doubt much might be learnt from his herbarium, 
but I have had no opportunity of seeing it. With sue e 
