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ROSA SCABRATA 57 
eee iv. Leaflets biserrate, glandular on midrib and also on 
secondary nerves. Peduncles glandular-hispid or not. 
Key to Britis Srectss. 
1 { Peduneles glabrou 2 
ty Peduncles Shafular: hispid R. trachyphylla Gren. 
| Leaflets oval, subobtuse, or cuspidate. Fruit ie tae 
oS : R. scabrata red 
| Leaflets elliptical, acuminate. Fruit ovoid ...... R. vinacea Baker 
Rosa SCABRATA — 
is entitled to the name. He also mentions it by name (onl) in 
his Prim. Monog. (1869) in a supecckion of his section Canine, 
but sa discrimination from other species. 
hrist, in Rosen der sth. p- 130 (1 873), places Crépin’s 
plant as a variety of R. tomentella, remarking that it “reminds 
one of canina by its compl glabrousness or only somewhat 
pubescent petioles and its very scattered prickles, but of 
tomentella by its leaflets being more or less densely glandular 
ete _ With its peculiar short secondary toothing and broader 
rickle 
a N sith Déséglise, Dumortier, nor Rouy and Foucaud mention 
this species at all, but Keller in Ascherson & Graebner’s FI. Mittel- 
europ. (1901) give it a considerable description, emphasizing the 
“dark red” glands on the petioles, nerves of the auricles, and 
saree 2s accndicy nerves of the leaflets, sometimes et 
to the n rvelets. He describes the aig as oval, medium-size 
the Beastie rancho being quite sm The leaflets are sae 
broadly oval and obtuse, fully biserrate, considerably glandular on 
i midrib, and slightly so on the si ” ee but 
ex 
back. Frui ann or panes urceolate-subglobose. Styles 
hispid 
Ther a poor specimen in herb. Déséglise without name, on 
which Ordon has written ‘“ Scabrate and someone else 
added “ scabrata,” but it is not clear that Crépin meant to refer it 
to his segregate. It has rather numerous, rather slender prickles, 
which are curved but not hooked, oe small elliptical el ny not 
strongly biserrate, with shallow teeth, a few obscure glands 
