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hemitricha Rip. General characters of R. urbica Lém., 
from which it differs in its villous and glandular petioles and 
biserrate leaflets. 
trichoneura Rip. General characters of R. wrbica Lém., but 
ffering in its midribs and lateral nerves villous, its flowers rose, 
its aan mig hispid, its leaflets are also simply toothed. 
. obscura Pug. Petioles with rare glands. Leaflets hairy 
all over partaati (in Puget’s specimens and his own note thereon). 
Flowers dete, white or very light rose. Fruit elongate, ovoid, or 
Rosa CANINA var. FRONDOSA. 
Baker, Monograph of British Roses, in Journ. Linn. Soe. xi. 
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Mr. Baker, wrongly supposing this to be synonymous w ith 
fi. frondosa Stev., gives it only the following description :—* Differs 
no light thrown on Mr. Baker's Ani from ‘Déséglise 
barium, as it is not represented therein, nor, so far as I know, is 
it figs by any foreign author. It may be regarded as a less 
of B. obtusefolia Desv., and comes very near the 
(aeteentel R. trichoneura Rip,, or between that and obtusifolia. 
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National Herbarium, from Matlock Tor, Derbyshire. It has 
uite small simply serrate leaflets, not rounded, but somewhat 
narrowed below, hairy only on the veins; petioles pubescent and 
somewhat prickly, not glandular, “Fruit ve ry small, globose ; 
peduncles smooth; styles subglabrous. 
Mr. Baker quotes Woods’s R. dumetorwm, No. 93, as synony- 
mous. It was gathered at Pound’s Bridge, Kent, and sm: 
leaves rounded at the base, ay only on veins beneath. Fruit 
small, broadly ovoid. Styles 
Other British specimens b pee us collectors vary so mgr atly 
that it is impossible to generalize from them. Many of them 
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is a globose fi fruit, but even that is by no means always small. 
There is no doubt that there is a mixture.of R. obtusifolia, 
