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tached from their stems, but one has one stem-prickle attached to 
it, which is rather stout, straightish, with curved tip. Those on 
the flo owering-shoots are small, slender, and straight. The petioles 
are considerably glandular, and have a good many short aciculate 
prickles, but are ver — and some ie vag Be ei glabrous. 
or two almost smooth. Fruit broadly otal: rather arge. pals 
quite slandalar on os — with short pinne, strongly cae 
oer dedi: ‘Glen Shee has remarkably long, straight, 
slender prickles ; petioles glabrous and glandular ; leaflets large, 
elliptical, dark green, biserrate, but teeth not very glandular ; 
midrib -glandular* and prickly; peduncles and calyx-tube 
hispid-glandular; sepals very glandular on back, with very y long 
foliaceous points; flowers large, bright pink. Too young to 
For the present it seems desirable to refer all British plants of 
this group having glabrous, biserrate leaflets glandular on secon- 
dary nerves, and with hispid peduncles, to R. trachyphylla rote 
Of course, if a similar standard be adopted to that in other grou 
for the here pt wea? species or varieties with those ieadine 
characters, no dou milar oo is open here, but under what 
name I cannot at seh ter sugges 
Rosa BLONDHANA 
Ripart ex Déséglise, Essai Monographique, p. 133 (1861). 
“Tall, branched. Stem-prickles robust, dilated at the base, 
hooked, those of the branches weaker, curved. | Pet tioles furrowed, 
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shining above, opa below, 
faeseeaiti phe #0, the le with scattered but deciduous 
glands, biserrate with glandular denticles. Stipules broad, hin 
bi 
a above; scattered glandular beneath, gland-ciliate. Auricles. 
to some parce! the no gland i in this and i in some other species 
duous, ¥ m the 
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are more or ress deci 
side nerves in some 
