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naked, shorter than fruit. Calyx-tube oblong, ventricose, base and 
neck constricted, glabrous, naked. Sepals ovate lanceolate, sub- 
reflexed sigur taenig white-tomentose within and on edges, glabrous 
on n back, pinne linear, subglandular, the terminal appendage elon- 
eae iam quite entve, as 2 rig petals. Corolla aca or Meld 
pa P 
oes not mention ee in the Review, and ae cor 
it a very coe notice in the Monograph, i Bruit gt 
the teeth very acute. ‘It has the aspect of R. sepium, but the 
petioles and leaflets are glandless,’ Déséglise.”” This last-quoted 
remark of Déséglise is quite misleading. 
om Acharius’s description and plate, I understand a dwarf 
plant, with very short flowering-branches 2-3 inches long; patent 
subulate or conical prickles, close-set on stem, but scattered on 
branches ; leaflets inch by 4 inch, oval or broadly elliptic, hardly 
narrowe oak ase, par eer not acuminate; owers small, so ; 
; th 
acorn, measuring 4-5 lines by 33-4 lines; but their shape is 
well described by Acharius. The styles are “ihat and hispid, not 
woolly. 
This s species has been very greatly misunderstood, and I am im 
sure in this ease whether the errors of foreign hav been 
marked than those of British botanists. The latter, for the host 
part, a the name to any small-leaved, uniserrate, glabrous rose 
with small globose fruit, which perhaps is not Leg sero with 
our restricted list, but there are closely allied plants on the 
Continent which might be mistaken for it. But there are in the 
British collection, as with all species and varieties, some speci- 
mens which could not possibly be R. rec ce oa even Mr. 
: : : ong Se 
one of three leaflets, bat this is sr scaideci tal case of 
—— — which may peciniiily. be seit in many 
ete 
specimens, though they show a great variety of 
prickles, have them usually straightand subulate, a character usually 
ignored by British botanists. The leaflets, though usually small, 
or rat to be eons swore folded along the midrib. 
hey appr tb , but almost always larger and longer 
