92 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINZ OF THE GENUS ROSA 
Rosa REUTERI var. SUBCANINA. 
Christ in Rosen der Schweiz, p. 169 (1873). 
“Differs from the type in its reflexed sepals, and thinly 
pubescent petioles and nerves beneath leaves, also in somewhat 
longer peduncles.”’ 
Christ adds to this very brief diagnosis the remark that it 
connects R. Reutert with ifferi 
its larger leaflets, larger and earlier fruit on shorter peduncles, 
broad bracts, light rose flowers, and large white woolly head 
of styles. These additional remarks should. serve to diagnose 
the variety;- but the author’s mention of hairy nerves is not 
quite intelligible, as they are not permissible in any form of 
R. Reuteri, nor are they to be seen in any of Christ’s own 
specimens. 
use, shi 
petioles finely pubescent. Stipules rather broad. Peduncles very 
short. Fruit large’ and ‘globose, in clusters of three to four, the 
central ones subsessile and narrowed below. The styles are a 
good deal hispid, but not woolly. The sepals have all fallen, the 
t being well advanced towards maturity. This specimen does 
imarily in its 
or not more than spreading sepals, and, to judge from 
specimens, in its denser habit and smaller foliage. 
