70 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
peduncle is solitary, the side ones either single or in two’s or 
three’s. Bracts lanceolate acute, gland-ciliate. Peduncles and 
ovate calyx-tube perfectly glabrous. The sepals are leaf-pointed, 
two are entire, two pinnate on both sides and one on one, @ 
glabrous or glandular on the edges. tals delicate rose, with 
white claws. Styles short, pistils scarcely visible. Fruit like the 
oing” [R. canina Linn.]. 
glise, i i Monographique,” p. 127, has:—* Branches 
with dense prickles, dilated at base, curved, hooked, sometimes 
geminate below leaves. Petioles tomentose, often with 
glands, channelled, feebly prickly. Leaflets 5-7, shortly petioluled ; 
terminal acute or rounded at base, oval, acute at each end, villous 
chiefly beneath; nerves a little salient, uniserrate; teeth mucro- 
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rymb, short, vil é, especially when 
young, the lateral often branched, hidden by ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, ciliate, gland-fringed bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous 
Sepals with long-lanceolate appendages, glandular-dentate, ciliate, 
tomentose within, shorter than the corolla, reflexed, deciduous 
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very few have even a trace of 
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specimens is the presence of glands on the petioles, but they are 
certainly more often prickly than in R. dumetorum. The stipules 
are villous in both species. The leaflets of R. corymbifera are 
large, varying from elliptical to rather broadly ovate, sometimes, 
but not always, a good deal narrowed at the base, and acute or 
somewhat acuminate at the apex. The 
fruit is small, ovoid-urceolate, and in considerable clusters; it is 
said to be orange or yellowish-red, a character I cannot verify 
from dried specimens. The styles are hispid. 
who places this species in his subsection 
Pubescentes (Primit. Monog.), corresponding with his varieties of 
the group R. duwmetorum of his later arrangement. 
There are two British examples in herb. Déséglise. One 
collected by Mr. Rogers in Bent ey Wood, South Wilts, marked 
by him, “‘ Handsome plant with strongly arching tall stems.” It 
has many hooked prickles on stem’ ak petioles. The leaflets are 
