ROSA CREPINIANA 91 
globose, rather glaucous. Sepals naked on back, leaf-pointed 
and copiously pinnate, hardly at all glandular-ciliate, erecto- 
patent after petals fall. Fruit turning scarlet early in September, 
and most of the sepals adhering till it is fully ripe. Styles 
densely villous 
éséglise is quotes Dumortier’s description in his Monog. 
des roses de la flore Belge, p. 62 (1867), as referring 3 ey species. 
Dumortier says :—‘This curious species forms low tufted bushes 
Stems furnished with hooked prickles. Shoots, “ia aie and 
scales. Petioles with prickles and some glandular acicles, other- 
wise glabrous. Leaflets oval, oop simply dentate, with some 
stipitate glands on midrib, quite glabrous. Bracts subscarious, 
small, glabrous. Peduncles, fruit, and sepals glabrous oe ee 
solitary, of am form and colour of R. pimpine nellifolia. Fra it oval, 
blackish, crowned by inarticulate erect sepals.” It w be seen 
that this deceription differs from Mr. Baker’s in h abit and in 
colour of fruit. The habit no doubt varies according to the situa- 
tion, and the colour of the fruit of R. Crepiniana is said to be 
blood-red as compared with the ee -red of that of R. Raided 
so that if Dumortier had only seen very late fruits, ‘rad sou 
have smpowes blackish. He ian shared the view of som 
foreign botanists in attributing rose-coloured flowers 46 R. as 
. ponallsfoas Linn., 5 a plants with white flowers being referred 
to R. spinosissima 
. Baker, in bi “Mo nograph, reduces this species to a 
synonym of R. Reutert God. and &. glauca Vill., neither of which 
are mentioned in the Review, nor does Dum ortier notice them, 
so that the differences between R. Siciuiiale and R. Reuteri 
or R. glauca are not brought out by those authors. Déséglise, 
in the key in his Catalogue Raisonné, p. 121, contrasts them as 
follows :— 
Leaflets oval, or oval-obtuse, glaucous, with nerves 
somewhat reddish; flowers bright rose; fruit 
ees Guinigeted, subglobose or ovol . glauca. 
Leaflets oval; fruit ovoid, blood-red, crowned by oo 
peso sepals . Crepiniana. 
Thaxe. are five British specimens in oe Déséglise. They all 
have the broad stipules and auricles f R. Reutert, but their 
leaflets are more elliptical and acute, she: frit more ellipsoid, and 
the sepals very erect and persistent. The styles are in a villous 
head. There are only two foreign specimens. One a very doubt- 
fully named one from France, and one from Belgium, so that the 
species is essentially a British one. 
