54 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINZ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
glandular, but midribs glabrous and smooth. Peduncles moder- 
ately and sepals very glandular. Fruit ovoid-subglobose. Styles 
densely hispid. Another example from the same station is very 
similar, but has glabrous rae All these five have strongly 
glandular biserrate leaflets 
Rosa LATEBROSA 
Déséglise, * Notes extr. de l’énumeration des Rosiers,” in Journ. 
Bot. 1874, p. 170. 
“Habit of R. andegavensis. Prickles robust, dilated, com- 
pressed at base, ie or slightly hooked at the tip, running 
wnto fine setaceous ac on the flowering-branches. Bark vinous 
or greenish. Petioles glabrous, with fits glands, prickly. Lift 
ark green above, oval, those wi ee shoots Seal laniosolate or 
secondary glandu Mi with some glands. Stipules gla- 
brous, with acute, straight een, interstipular part ee, 
Peduncles solit ispid, others ou 
This is the only =e te of the subsection which has 
aciculi o ie stem. There is one closely allied foreign plant, also 
having eibwees leaflets, ae mes interveniens Déségl. Both seem 
to be quite rare on the Continent. R. latebrosa does not appear 
to be mentioned by any author but Déséglise, and Rouy is the 
only other writer who mentions R. interveniens, which he regards 
as a gallica x canina. Crépin has a species, R. occulta, which 
class. R. 
Britain, but is rafteiently pon dulttvated to produce areal 
yon 
I have seen no foreign specimens of FR. latebrosa, but Déséglise 
has several gathered by Briggs in Devon ar Cornwall. There is 
also a specimen from Monmouth by Mr. Ley. "They all have 
strong hooked prickles, those on the flowering-stems being mixed 
with fine nim acicles, but not showing a gradual transition 
thereto. In @ specimens the aciculi are only to be found on 
the very tops OE the flowering-branches. The leaflets are usually 
—_ small, fully biserrate. The bracts and sepals are glandular 
n the back, and the fruit ovoid. 
