28 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
and subulate. The leaflets for a a at part are large, elliptic 
rather than ovate, often longly acuminate, rounded or narrowed 
at the base. The toothing got eens ably. Some specimens 
show 2 or 3 denticles to each main tooth, but such specimens are, 
as a rule, named with out. ‘More often a secondary toothlet 
lies between each primary one, so that. the toothing gee 
hai 
stent & to this 
have not naalied detailed notes a the British examples in herb. 
Déséglise, as the mati idiger rind: er them. 
as som cea. and’ the latter more 
Boigated Leaflets: but at best they eh present such varieties from 
e type as ma ound in tis species. No doubt toad occur 
Specimens look to me very like var. glaucescens Desv., but ha 
eae more elliptical not glaucous leaflets, and usually more hairy 
petioles, 
Rosa SENTICOSA 
Acharius in ees Vetensk. — Handl. p. 91 ah od 
—_ wide, acute, pale both sides, especially beneath, very finely 
trate, teeth with a few denticles, Pee bar dular. Petioles 
shat 2 inches pa naked, smooth or with scattered very slender 
hite hairs and a few straight or slightly curved prickles, occa- 
sionally glandular at ‘the top. Stipules linear, auricles lanceolate, 
glandular. Flowers small, sccm & meee — late me 
brous, plandtlar-eerrain deeaces occasionally leafy. les glabrous, | 
