90 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
usually simple. Stipules large, foliaceous. Flowers 2 to 3. 
Peduncles glabrous, rarely glandular, scarcely longer than calyx- 
. pals reflexed after flowering, pinnatifid, with entire 
appendages. Petals large, longer than sepals, overlapping at 
e. Fruit large, subglobose or ovoid, orange-red. Sepals erect, 
falling as fruit commences to ripen. Differs from R. canina in its 
more glaucous, more obtuse, often obovate leaflets. Flowers more 
shortly peduncled. Fruit large, pruinose, ripe early, with sepals 
not falling till it begins to ripen.” : 
Déséglise’s description (Ess. Monog. p. 99) is almost identical, 
but he adds that the prickles are inclined or straight, petioles 
glabrous, unarmed or nearly so, leaflets firm, coriaceous, oval or 
obtuse, stipules large with dilated auricles, styles villous. 
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stipules broad and almost always remar lated upw 
Its peduncles are short, though not so short as in some of the 
varieties of R. canina. Its styles are very w in a broad sub- 
irected forward, but not unfrequently they are coarse. The 
petals are usually deeper in colour than in most of the R. canina 
group. 
There are a large number of specimens in Déséglise’s her- 
barium, many of them labelled by_rhodologists of repute as 
. 
5 , , R. spherica ‘ 
and £. dumalis Bechst., though I think Déséglise was correct in 
There are only two British examples in his herbarium. One, 
collected by Mr. Baker, without locality, which is quite typical, 
except that its peduncles are rather longer than usual. The other, 
by Webb, from Sephton, Lanes, seems to be off type in its dark 
green, almost biserrate leaflets, with somewhat hairy and slightly 
glandular petioles; its stem and branches also are much more 
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prickly than usual. The styles, however, are in the characteristic 
villous head of the group. 
Rosa CREPINIANA 
Déséglise ex Baker, Review of British Roses, p. 28 (1864). 
