ROSA LUTETIANA 27 
Tall, with large leaflets. Prickles hooked, stout 3 
2) Short, with medium or small leaflets, and straightish subulate 
3/ Fruit ovoid. Sepals reflexed R. lutetiana Lém. 
| Fruit globose. Sepals patent R. spherica Gren. 
| Leaflets large, spaced. Flowers white, in clusters. Fruit 
4 
narrow 
R. flexibilis Déségl. 
Leaflets small, acute each end. Flowers rose. Fruit ovoid 
R. mucronulata Déségl. 
Rosa Luretiana Lém. 
The only description published by Léman will be found in his 
oduced on p. 19. 
séglise, in “ Essai Monographique” in Mém. de la Soc. 
Acad. de Maine-et-Loire, x. p. 52 (1861), writes under R. canina 
Linn., which he uses in a segregate sense :—' A straight elevated 
bush, with long branches, glabrous all over. Prickles strong, 
scattered, compressed and dilated at base, arched at tip. Petioles 
ets all 
that he regards this as Linnzus’s type, and restricts the name to 
er, in “ Review of British Roses,” p- 25 (1864), says :— 
flat, firm 
* Leafl le green and somewhat glaucous, not . 
glabrous both sides, the terminal ovate, narrowed or somewhat 
rounded at base, the serratures numerous, simple, rp, and 
deciduous, fruit ovoid and styles hispid. ; 
There is a large number of specimens in herb. Déséglise, and 
quite a considerable number of these differ in some important 
particular from his description. The prickles are 
al always 
strong and hooked, but a few examples have them straightish 
