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fi. glauca, of which it has neither the dilated stipules nor the 
densely woolly styles, nor does it at all accord with m my idea of 
fi. celerata Baker. Its leaflets are almost simply serrate, but this 
does not affect the question of grou 
Forms or, as many think, synonyms of BR. dumalis Bechst. 
are as follows : 
R. stipularis ] Mér. has speensenally dilated stipules. 
R. glaucophylla Winch has glaucous leaflets. Crépin (loc. cit.) 
thinks this is a variety of R. sng ES is quite possible. The 
styles in the specimens I have seen are a good deal hispid but 
hardly woolly enough, nor the stigmas sufficiently capitate for 
that pain 
ft. sarmentacea Woods seems to me, for the most part, to cover 
the more eae biserrate, glandular toothed and petioled forms, 
but one or two so named by Woods are farce « toothed and 
eeste teeth and smooth a 
R. erythrella Rip. seems to ea merely a form with very large 
bright rose flowers. 
. rhynchocarpa Rip. has iopginbens styles and beaked fruit. 
Neither of the last two mentioned have been recorded as British. 
Rosa BISERRATA 
Mérat, Flore de Paris, p. 190 (1812). 
“Stem 3-4 feet. Prickles curved, with base longer than = 
height. sages oval, rather large, aeaidy serrate, each tooth 
so v 
glandular. Pe 
prickly, and little glandular. Stipules very glandular. Peduncles 
and fruit — the latter globular. Sepals almost simple, 
realty oval, dilated. Pedun cles short, smooth, one 
uncles. — 8 
Styles. short very hispid. Dise conical. Flowers rather roi 
t rather large, roundish.—Differs from dumalis 
in dark posh nee with very prominent veins. Fruit roundish, 
with erect sepals.” 
Mr. Baker does not describe this species peer wee — 
duces it into his Monograph as a synonym o 
He says :—* Scarcely different ae the last ‘dumabi, tak tee the 
open and very compound, the petioles more glanduloso- 
