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the same bush as No. 117, which unfortunately is missing. 
No. 118 has few stout prickles, not much hooked.  Petioles 
glabrous and eglandular, with small, much hooked prickles. 
Leaflets rather large, broadly oval or suborbicular, much the same 
ae as those of No. 120, but with remarkably coarse spreading 
ee 
but I do not think Woods used the latter word to mean “ densely 
hairy,” as modern authors have done 
Rosa VERTICILLACANTHA 
Mérat, Flore de Paris, p. 190 (1812). 
ee) 
a little rounded at base. Petioles densely setose, but only slightly 
hairy, and furnished with 2-3 hooked prickles. Stipules an 
bracts naked on back, but closely setoso-ciliate. Peduncles densely 
aciculate and setose, usually shorter than the bracts. Fruit ellip- 
tical, naked, not ripe till October. Sepals somewhat glandular on 
, and densely setoso-ciliate, ne age 8 the time aa rt 
changes colour. Styles slightly hairy.” He adds: “ 
Gutse seit, the Sencvialice a 2. vertictllacantha Meér., but in the 
i ged ‘en spire autour de la 
tige.’”’ Ido not know where Mr. Baker is quoting from; Mérat’s 
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