96 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
nate, eglandular, et not erect. Fruit subglobose- oe 
Styles — woo 
D se has British examples, collected but not named 
by Mr. Baker. They are labelled ZR. ee Kern, and are in 
the R. complicata Gren. cover, the names being synonymous. 
They are from Seaton Delaval, in Roshubbedaal and Swale- 
dale, Yorkshire, and Mr. Baker’s own notes on théun show them 
to differ from his subcristata mainly in their deep red flowers 
and more glandular sepals. 
Rosa HaristToni 
Baker in Report of Bot. Exch. Club, p. 7 (1867). 
“ Habit and growth of canina. Prickles moderately close and 
numerous, the large ones like canina, but running into small, 
slender aciculi. Leaves bright green and naked pre ate paler and 
ad naked oF Gale "i ertnttiaE ovate, rounded at base. 
tio pen and rather irregular, a few teeth ae ae double. 
Petioles not at all hairy, but slightly setose, with 3-4 falcate 
acicles. ‘Stipules naked on back, closely setose-ciliated. Peduncles 
3—4, rather short, quite naked. Calyx-tube obovoid or roundish, 
quite naked. Sepals fully pinnate and ered erect-patent 
after pale pink petals fall, naked on back, slightly hairy towards 
edges, slightly setose-ciliate, falling by the time the fruit ripens 
which is in late September. Styles hairy. Recedes towards 
R. hibernic 
I have Hio$ seen Mr. Baker’s type, but his No. 391, from Thirsk, 
wing, causing it to assume a monstrous Sie Ribot! which may 
account for the abnormality in the cota ages rye hoo 
beyond the injury, and the flowering-shoots, do how any 
acicles. The leaflets are elliptical, almost eras * the styles 
and ones are “6 those of ws i gg group, and the sepals are 
spreading at right angles, not e The only fruit is ovoid. 
Déséglise, though he does sot mention this plant in Cat. Rais., 
imens in his herbarium, three of which were — 
Ste clearer e of ste six have mixed armature on 
the flowering-shoots, ia slog all have acicles on the barren seus 
All have very straight prickles, whereas Baker’s description says 
the larger ones are like those o Pitas i. e. hooked, and the only 
imen I have seen of his 
ot have hardly seen enough maibhieitie material to decide whether 
a ger to the group R. glauca, with which Mr. Baker 
one it, or R. canina, as Crépin has it, or whether it is merely a 
calcul. a do not think it belongs to the R. hibernica group, 
sit Gees HE voalsenbtaati: fn to R. Sei lta‘ t Rip. 
