_ THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE/ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
rate, and though somewhat larger are narrower in proportion. 
The sepals are only micro-glandular on the backs. 
Rosa ERIOSTYLA 
Ripart & Déséglise Cat. Raisonné, p. 165 (1877). 
“A low shrub, prickles more or less numerous, inclined or 
straight, dilated at the base. Petioles almost unarmed, with 
Scattered hairs and glands. Leaflets 5—7, oval, oval-elliptic, the 
lower generally subobtuse, glabrous, doubly serrate, the secondary 
teeth usually glandular. Stipules glabrous, auricles erect or 
slightly diverging, bordered with glands. Peduncles glabrous, 
solitary or 2-4 omen: racts oval cuspidate, glabrous, sauna 
ire 
not persistent. Styles free, v us, like a short column. 
Disc a little conical. Flowers light rose. Fruit globose, or the 
tral ones of the clusters obovoid.” 
Although, judging from the number of specimens in herb. 
Déséglise, this must be a fairly common plant on the Continent, 
The 
medium or rather large, usually moderately biserrate and teeth 
not much gland-tipped, but sometimes the leaflets are subsimply 
toothed. The fruit is never large, and varies from globose to 
ovoid. The styles are always densely woolly, but not by any 
a 
There are three British specimens. “One collected by Mr. 
rs at Bovey Tracey, and not named by him. It is placed 
