30 o7Es SUBSECTION EU-CANINZ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
Wallroth, to whom it was sent by Swartz. It agrees more nearly 
with Sekar s figure than any example I have seen, but its fruits 
are larger and more globose. 
Crépin ae that he has one an author’s specimen of R. sente- 
cosa, and that in his opinion it belongs to R. glauca. I have 
seen no other botanist sees “this view, and as I have not seen 
authentic specimens myself, I can only say that neither — nor 
seeedoboe. nor Gay’s — at Kew, confirm this 
stigmas, it is true, are said to be “in a aedotons ‘head,” but 
Ae s does not say cuaatohe they are also woolly, which is 
almost ppeinesensiiye = all varieties of R. glauca, and they are not 
so in specimens. Déséglise calls them merely hispid. 
ni aig! recorded from Britain, Déséglise - za no 
British s specimens not seam it as growing in this 
country, and though | Grépin does not deny its existence at the 
inference from his remarks on it in Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 180, is 
at it ioe not occur. I have, however, retained — ovisionally 
our list, as Tam unable to make British plants so named agree 
with anything else, and it has been looked upon as ae and 
fairly frequent for at least forty years. 
llied plants not recorded from Britain are fi. aciphylia Rau, 
with similar habit and prickles, but even smaller leaflets, $ inch 
b ines, acute at each end, petioles somewhat hairy, leaflets 
— a a sometimes a biserrate. Also R. canina Linn. 
- ramosissima Rau, h hooked prickles on stem, unarmed 
icwiein sdeaaben, nadir rather large subobtuse irregularl 
serrate leaflets, broadly ovoid fruit, with sepals inclined to spread 
or rise. 
Rosa SPHHRICA 
Grenier in Schultz Archives Fl. France, p. 333 (1855). 
“ Sepals A gear or scarcely reflexed, tubes globo: 
naked, as also are peduncles. Fruit spherical. Leafiets oval 
acute, glabrous on both sides and on edges, light green above, sub- 
glaucescent beneath, and simply serrate. Petioles glabrous, with 
strong a is plant has close alliance with the preceding 
Gren.|, as well as with platyphylla [Rau]. It is sepa- 
rated on the latter by its leaves being entirely glabrous and by 
its spherical fruit. It is seperate: from the ae by its leaves 
being light green, and glabrous on nerves and edges; its leaflets 
are oval, more elongate, with strongly prickly petioles. Its stem 
prickles are stronger, and scarcely lower than broad at the ace. 
Its fruits are all spherical, except the central one, which is 
turbinate.” ies 
Grenier’s cag being rather meagre, I append that of 
Déséglise in “ Essai Monographique, in M begs Coe 
Maine-et-Loire, x. Pp. 104 ibaa g — —* Str sht, with robust, dilated, 
arched prickles. hairs at the insertion 
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