50 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINEZ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
Rosa SURCULOSA 
Woods, Synopsis of the tp a espe of Rosa, in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xii. p. 228 (1817). 
fuscous, the young ones "glaucescent, sometimes endl prickly, or 
sometimes almost unarmed. Prickles ve ry strong, hooked, i n pairs 
under the ib mar or solitary, scattered. Petioles ‘bly sdattarad 
airy above, in other respects glabrous, furnished with strong 
hooked prickles. “Btipalee aap or linear, sometimes serrate, 
sometimes glandular-ciliate at the base, sometimes quite entire 
acuminate bracts, Teatots 5-7, the upper pair and Yerinal one 
larger than the others, the edges and midrib above only with scanty 
hairs, elliptical or subrotund, acuminate, the terminal sige or 
urp 
a rrate, 
duncles 1-24, here and there with scattered, very slender set or 
airs. ceptacle ovoid, fuscous, glabrous, dise convex. Sepals 
triangular-elliptical, divided almost to the base, pinnse innigdalite 
or linear- lanceolate, nerved, quite entire. Flowers red. Styles 
porrect, villous, stigmas in a dense head. Fruit broadly ollipaoid, 
red.” 
In the notes pee follow the above description, Woods points 
out that it differs from R. canina in its flat, not carinate, leaflets, 
rePaaatd prickly se peduncles almost always hairy or setose, 
entire sepal pinnae, and porrect styles ; also by its strong barre 
aia covered with “ blue wax,” and its cymes of eight to twenty 
oods’s No. 119, collected by Borrer at Partridge Green, 
Senay, is onl the end of a flowering-branch, unarmed except for 
rare i 
ular-hispid. i 
oven: Styles ae rabglaboae Fruit ovoid, but not fully 
oO. "190, f 
luxuriant. Prickles few, but stout and hooked. Petioles am 
pubescent above, quite eglandular, with 2-3 small hooked petal 
or none. Leaflets large, broadly oval, cuspidate, quite bro 
rounded at base, toothed like the last. Cymes large, one from 
each of the last three axils, the two lower with seven flowers 
each, the terminal with fourteen, but all combined into one Jarge 
cyme. Some peduncles thinly g — some slightly hairy, 
"fre Hayes, Middlesex, is a stout barren shoot, from 
