98 THE SUBSECTION EU-CANINE OF THE GENUS ROSA 
two entire. Petals red. Styles very weet Fruit hard, red, 
nt ne ovoid-globose, or even ovoid on same bush.” 
n op. cit., ed. 2, p. 147 (1828), Bees writes :—‘‘ Opaque, pei 
branches patent, flexuous, vegetation coreg Prickles firm, co 
ai essed, inate. a hae tomentose ees rmed. “eae 
ntles 
naptteced-pilo ose a ve. at le ngth anode: villous beneath, very 
entire at base, the terminal subcordate. Teeth simple, eglandular 
sometimes spreading, sometimes adpressed. Peduncles 1-3, 
short, always glabrous. Bracts conspicuous, ovate- lanceolate, 
longer than the fruit. Calyx: tube very Bae bone Sepals semi- 
innate, persistent, pinnules entire. Fru peeved of the size 
ote ee nut, bright red a month earlier than R. dum 
R. coriifoli olia Fr., noni other space whose names are used in 
as well as in a segre _ e sense, is wae nded b 
synonym, bu 
Déséglize doubte this. He has seen a specimen collected by 
Besser in herb. DC., and no doubt has noticed other points of 
broad stipules. Others enol it as a variety of dumetorum, to 
38 ) n 
plant, b ae on the Continent and in Britain, car unlike R. Reuterz, 
nerally pila instead of being partial to moun- 
saline dtetriota “i leaflets vary greatly in shape and size, but, 
as a _ ome ral rule, close- oe on the rape which, together 
serrate, though Fries’s description allows them to be un equally 
serrate, and aes emphasizes the latter character as one of 
be 
pontine above with age. This is rarely the case in the specimens 
say seen, though th 
even benea 
th. e petioles are almost al ways densely, 
