ROSA CORIIFOLIA 3 99 
though usually finely, pubescent, usually unarmed, and rarely at 
all glandular, thus re ana those of R. dumetorw The 
stipules are pubescent on the back, and though nai are not as 
_a rule so broad nor have te such dilated auricles as in Re. Reutert. 
e the disc. Thus, out of thirty-four specimens meni 
developed fruit, and named by competent botanists, only four have 
erect sepals, while sixteen have them quite reflexed, the remaining 
fourteen having them more or less spreading. The te G at 
Kew, however, show the erect character of the sepals con- 
stantly, but it is difficult to believe that the contributors to 
Déséglise’s herbarium, and his own judgment, can have been so 
often at fault. The pinne are well developed and ees and 
are rarely gland-ciliate. The styles are almost always in a broad 
dense woolly head. This latter character, ete bine” the 
rising sepals and bright rose flowers, forms a ready mea i 
distinguishing it from £.. dumetorum, but ckneiptiiis to all ties 
ee occur. 
rist (Ros. der Schweiz, Z a sums up an points by which 
R. conifotis can istinguish R.dumetorum as follows :— 
-« RB. dumetorum has leaflets. Sauna oval, Seated at base; 
mt broad and rounded; pubescence dark, hairs scattered. 
Flowers blush. Peduncles longer than the non- ewer" bracts. 
ale: tis xed, falling early. sh _ be hairy or glabrous. 
R. coriifolia has leaflets tein: Be a ase: ; toothing 
finer — narrow i cence dense, vadintes felted. Flowers 
bright rose. Peduncles longer [sic € = phos than the usually 
heodots broad bracts. Sepals ae or erect, longer per- 
sistent. — s short, in a woolly head.” 
There are two s aocidaeas collected by Fries, at Kew. Both 
have.close- ert large, oval, subobtuse leaflets, with rounded or sub- 
cordate base, simply or irregularly serrate, grey, with close, dense, 
adpressed pubescence both sides. pecs with short dense 
ightly glan 
ric 
Ps There are five British specimens accepted by Déséglise in his 
herbarium. One, by Webb, from West Kirby, Cheshire, labelled 
R. coriifolia, has elliptical or obovate acute leaflets of medium 
size, shallowly acutely = cma mataciouies both a 
it: 
very thinly hairy above, pubescent, but not densely so beneath. 
Petioles pubescent, unarmed. Peduncles short. There is no 
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