60 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINA) OF THE GENUS ROSA 
ovoid, glabrous or hispid at the base. Sepals pinnatifid, Seger 
deciduous. Flowers pale rose. Styles very villous. Frui 
nuda (R. Blondeana Déségl.). Petioles not puberulent. 
Only midribs salient. Peduncles little or not glandular. Grows 
on same bush as type!’ 
The above name and description must, I think, stand for what 
we have called R. Blondzana Rip. and R. canina var. marginata 
Baker. The proper treatment of these plants has given me more 
Gonkis than any I have yet dealt with, and I fear I have not 
satisfactorily solved the problem. Déséglise has conclusively 
proved that we have not got R. marginata Wallr., that being a 
species with its prickles degenerating into acicles, ‘and its leaflets 
ees eglandular beneath, except a very few on the base of the 
Cuepie, no doubt correctly, refers it to R. gallica x 
FORE 
But what are R. Blondeana Rip. and BR. marginata auct. plur 
non Wallr.? I quote ——— Ss peattiikion of R. Blondeana 
Rip., with some notes on specimens named by Ripart, after the 
present species, and endeavour to ae there that British speci- 
mens referred to that species by Déséglise are really BR. arvatica 
Baker. There may be authentic* British examples of Rk. Blondeana 
Rip. in private herbaria, but I venture to suggest, judging from 
Ripart’s description and spocinet they are not sufficien ney. dis- 
however, that Déséglise is silent on this point. 
Specimens: labelled RB. ma: arginata “Wallr.” differ from Ripart’s 
species mainly in their pr s being more slender and straighter, 
their leaflets aces haces tanta of shining, peduncles, fruit, 
and sepals more gla ispid, sepals more erect and more 
persistent, = Fem ssa erect till fruit mines colour, 
fruit -_ globose, more W 
seen to be those of neg ot of kind. 
Déséglise, while admitting that British specimens of R. 
ginata come nearer to Wallroth’s type than do those of en 
and Belgium, has not labelled them with that name, but refers 
them to R. marginata auct., which he says is exactly Fe. trachy- 
ies ry of which he had seen several specimens named by 
ave seen one sheet of FR. trachyphylla Gren. collected by 
the author in France. It consists of five flowering-shoots de- 
shed “ authentic’ I mean, here and elsewhere, material d or accepted 
by some well recognized authority. 
