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Rosa PLATYPHYLLA 
Rau, Enumeratio Rosarum, p. 82 (1816). 
“‘Ovoid calyx-tube and peduncles glabrous. Leaflets orbicular- 
oval, acute, glabrous above, glaucescent beneath, villous on midrib 
and veins, subsimply serrate, serrations ciliate. Shrub, often 
10 ft. high, robust, prickly. Prickles scattered and stipular, often 
geminate, strong, hooked. Petioles tomentose all over, eglandular, 
with often strong hooked prickles. Stipules denticulate, ciliate, 
shining, green above, glaucescent beneath. Leaflets orbic enoir 
oval, 14 in. by 1in., simply serrate at base, ei eowaede'd 
serrations arlilaginons, ciliate, ful green a te Tous Doe 
and foliaceous at apex, inciso-serrate, a me oore appendages 
lanceolate, remotely serrate, glan ndulary exceeding the small red 
corolla. Fruit as in canina. Near R. canina, but leaflets three or 
four times larger, more or ‘less acumi warreres sometimes ciliate, not 
glandular, midrib, veins, and petioles tomentose 
Déséglise, in ‘‘ Essai Mo nographique,” p. 125, gives gato 
the same description, adding :—‘‘ Styles villous, disc uch 
salient. Flowers light rose. Fruit Anes Differs from "R. dame 
torum in s broader, glabrous a erves beneath 
et bove : . 
Calyx-tube ovoid- globose.  Peduncles ahh, or villous, especially 
when ee Fruit mg 
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sharp, connivent, somewhat ee but nt ea ouble. Ter- 
minal varying from shige rounded at base, to broa dl he in 
‘ villou 
n has seen Rau’s tyr , and says its aw are quite 
cna above: and pubescent only on Poe neat ey are 
not very large, but, on the contrary, rather s or medium, not 
orbicular but oval, and with some of a teeth double. Calyx-tube 
cont of inte have ae strong with a “bases. 
Leadets always large, broadly oval, but seldom or never orbicular, 
sometimes only oval or — a almost — quite a 
pubescent, i are veins quite thinly oe bie ‘under 
