58 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINA OF THE GENUS ROSA 
on the midrib, and fewer still or none on the secondary nerves. 
Petioles glabrous, but rather densely glandular. Peduncles very 
short, smooth. Fruit small or medium, ovoid or subglobose. 
Styles Biscia, 
I not seen any British examples of R. scabrata, though 
Crépin frequently pas hact eae an in an aggregate wet to plants 
which were sent hi n the list as I can see no 
special pees for rejecting it, his T ag not feel sure of. its specific 
charac It is obviously rather near some of the forms of 
Ee vinacea Baker, but has broader, more obtuse leaflets and more 
subglobose fruit. 
Rosa VINACEA 
Baker, Review of British Roses, p. 32 (1864). 
“Habit, growth, and prickles of normal. Leaves somewhat 
glaucous, green, firm, hardly flat, quite glabrous above, paler but 
not at all hairy beneath, the veins praitingnt, glandular on midrib 
and principal veins. Teeth sharp but moderately open, each fur- 
nished with 1-2 fine gland-tipped serrations. Terminal narrow 
ovate, hardly rounded at base, the petiole not hairy, but prickly 
and densely setose. Stipules and bracts naked or slightly glan- 
dular, densely setoso-ciliate. Peduncles and calyx-tube naked, 
the latter subglobose. Sepals reflexed after fall of petals, leaf 
pointed but not much eed abeniy glandular on the back, and 
copiously setoso-ciliate. Fruit subglobose, not ripe till October, 
by which time the sepals ‘ok fallen. Styles — 
leaves, aiag stipules, and bracts all deeply tinged re 
h e description was armas by Mr. Baker ae his 
subsection Gabdiagentiic of R. canina, in which the midribs and 
p. 181). But in his Monograph, for no stated reason, Mr. Baker 
reduces R. vinacea to a synonym of R. biserrata Mér., which is not 
quite intelligible, though no doubt the two have been confounded 
by British botanists who have not understood the latter plant. 
At the same time he alters the shape of his fruit from subglobose, 
which would be correct for biserrata, to oblong, which, judging 
cimens, is more correct for vinacea than his original 
agp of ge This alteration of views eon account 
Shean 
Mr. Baker’s type appears to have been his No. 28 from Thirsk. 
This has small curved prickles. Petioles glabrous and thinly 
glandular. Leaflets rather large, ~~ spaced on petioles, narrowly 
elliptical or somewhat = ceolate, longly acuminate at the apex, 
and often much narrow: “yee Sco never quite rounded, the tooth- 
ing a good deal biserrate, but secondary teeth little gland-tipped. 
There are only a few i cnodnarionoes glands on midribs, and none 
on side nerves, which is not in keeping with the group characters, 
but the glandular development frequently varies, and may 
