ROSA DUMETORUM 65 
Rosa DUMETORUM 
Thuillier, Flore des Environs de Paris, p. 250 (1799). 
‘Branches glabrous. Prickles geminate below leaves, strong, 
hooked. Leaves pubescent. Petioles minutely prickly all round. 
Leaflets 5-7, suborbicular-oval. Fruit globose, and peduncles 
naked. Branches with only two prickles under each leaf. Leaflets 
roundish-oval, Se as Fruit spherical, pedunculate, glabrous, 
momen white or r 
pubescent, unarmed or with rare scattered setaceous prickles. 
Stipules pubescent, gland-ciliate. Auricles diverging, the wpper 
dilated. Peduncles smooth, one to few. Bracts oval, pubescent, 
ciliate, usually longer than peduncles. Calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous. 
Sepals short, glabrous, salient in bud, reflexed, then suberect but 
deciduous. Styles hispid. Disc nearly flat. Flowers. light rose. 
Fruit roundish, ripe early. Carpels pedicellate. 
Baker in Review, p. 27, says :—‘ Habit oat prickles of normal 
plant. Leaflets flat, grey-green, thinly hairy all over above when 
young, greyer still and hairy all over beneath, thicker and softer 
than in any of the preceding [i. e. urbica, platyphylla, and unct- 
nella]. Terminal large, broadly ovate, rounded or often cordate 
at base. Teeth simple, open, neither sharp n Pp les 
hairy on the back, dentate, but hardly at all setoso-ciliate. 
Peduncles naked. Calyx-tube and fruit, Eos us, usually large, 
ovate-urceolate, or seanptiice subglobose, green fruit more “spur 
than in the preceding, and ripening rather earlier. Sepals fully 
pinnate and leaf-pointed, reflexed after petals fall [the Monograph 
says “sepals often not fully reflexed”’], hairy on back, but hardly 
at all gland-ciliate, deciduous before fruit ripens, EY with 
us, is in the last fortnight of mene eer Fruit in the large 
ovate-urceolate fo ully an ong.” — “ Dietats often 
ag r in colour than in the eee Styles villous’ (Monog. 
p. 230). 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. p. 217 Be aes says:—‘‘4-6 feet. 
Branches weak, diffuse, olive, prickly. Prickles rather small, 
uncinate, subbinate, and scattered. Petioles with hairs and hooked 
prickles, sometimes even gianevist. Sg aa linear, glandular- 
serrate towards apex, pilose edges, the floral ones a little 
broader. Bracts small, eae aS not ae nor long, but longer 
men stipules. Leaflets flat, 5-7, sisi naaaenay terminal elliptical, 
i uch rounded at base, 
Sand OF Boone. fax 1908. seems cane 
