48 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
R. Lemaitrei Rip. Leaflets smaller, biserrate. Styles 
glabrous. 
- condensata Pug. More compact. Leaflets shorter, more 
obtuse, uniserrate. Stipules larger. Peduncles less hispid. Styles 
villous. Fruit rounded. : 
. purpurascens Rip. Stems, stipules, and bracts reddish. 
Peduncles very slightly hispid. Flowers large, fine rose. Styles 
villous. 
R, obtusa Rip. Leaflets biserrate. Calyx-tube small ovoid, 
glabrous, or hispid at base. Styles glabrous. Fruit small, 
rounded. ; 
Of the above only &. Lemaitrei has been recorded from Britain, 
ile R. condensata and R. purpurascens come from the Savoy ; 
but the other two may be, and probably are, found in Britain. 
Rosa LEMAITREI 
Ripart ex Déséglise, Catalogue Raisonné, p. 182 (1877). 
“Near R. andegavensis, from which it differs in its glabrous 
styles and smaller biserrate leaflets.” 
rest being simple. His key characters are: “Sepals more or 
glandular. Calyx-tube hispid at the base Styles glabrous 
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__ There are ten sheets in herb. Déséglise, one of them being of 
Ripart’s own gathering. The leaflets, which never seem to be 
much biserrate, are remarkably uniformly serrate in Ripart’s 
specimen. I 1 glabrous, but decidedly though 
thinly hairy. The petioles have a little long hair, which does not 
appear In most specimens; but I ha e with even a 
trace of hair on the midribs, as Orépin says is to be found in 
young leaflets. Ripart’s specimen is a little smaller in all its 
parts than normal andegavensis, but this is not the case with 
other specimens. 
There are two Britis 
