68 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
scent, longer than peduncles. Calyx-tube glabrous, ovoid or 
h, very tomentose within, reflexed, 
deciduous. Styles short, hispid, free or agglutinated. Flowers 
white. Fruit globose.” 
_tusifolia Desy. should be associated with R. tomentella Lém., and 
so far as I know the former species in the field, it certainly bears 
‘ ente 
regarded as an uniserrate, eglandular variety of that species. But 
this view is inadmissible by the laws of nomenclature. If placed 
in the &. Borrert group at all, unless all the members thereof are 
points in 
roundish oval, shortly attenuate-acute at apex, and with secon- 
ary nerves very salient. Stem-prickles short, hooked, strongly 
thickened at the base.” Now if I correctly estimate the views of 
absent from the secondary nerves, but this is probably on account 
of their deciduous nature, and they are always present on the 
to the wide range of habit covered by the members of the dwme- 
torum group, it surely cannot be contended that a dwarf compact 
habit is a primd facie reason for transferring R. obtusifolia to the 
Borrert group. * line of reasoning applies to the shape 
of the leaflets, and I must confess my inability to see, either in 
the field or in the herbarium, that the nerves of either R. tomen- 
tella or BR. obtusifolia are more prominent than in many other 
