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(Leaflets moderate, thorns falcate (17) cuspidatoides 



Leaflets large, thorns large, almost uncinate (17 var.) britannica 



(Leaflets large oblong, sub foliar glands few, fruit oblong 

 (12) scabriuscula 

 Leaflets moderate ovate, subfoliar glands many, fruit round 

 (13) sylvestris 



1. R. pomifera J. Herrm. Dissert. Rosa, 16 (1762). Habit very 

 robust; thorns slender, straight; leaflets 5-7, large, the terminal 

 one 1^-2 inches, elliptic-oblong, rounded or subcordate at base, 

 hairy on both sides, the serration open ; subfoliar glands often very 

 few ; " stipules glabrous above " ; fruit globular or subglobular, 

 usually densely aciculate ; petals ciliate, glandular at base. The 

 leaflets are stated by Deseglise to be eglandular below ; subfoliar 

 glands, however, are present on most of Deseglise's own specimens; 

 and though very variable in number are never, I believe, wholly 

 absent. 



The " apple-rose " is well known as a cultivated plant ; but its 

 occurrence here and there in hedges in Britain has hitherto been 

 thought insufficient to give it a place as a native plant. The writer 

 has, however, a specimen gathered by himself on mountain rocks 

 in Breconshire in 1876 in a situation in which it could hardly have 

 been introduced. Tidenham Chase, West Gloucester, in two spots, 

 Shoolbred ! Stafford ; Yorks ; Eoxburgh ! 



2. E. mollis Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 2459 (1812). R. mollissima Fr. 

 Novit. ed. 2, 51 (1828). Bush robust, with straight stiff branches; 

 leaflets broadly oval elliptic, softly hairy ; peduncles short, often 

 curved ; fruit rather large, globose, ripening early ; flowers almost 

 blood-red on opening. 



Abundant in the north, thinning out rapidly southwards in 

 Britain, but extending in the central counties to Stafford and 

 Derby, and in the west to Eadnor ! Hereford 1 Brecon ! and Mon- 

 mouth ! 



Eecords of B. mollis from counties south of Monmouth should 

 be subjected to a strict examination before being accepted ; in all 

 cases which have come under the notice of the writer such records 

 have uniformly proved to belong to one or other of the cognate 

 species. 



Var. recondita (Puget) in Deseg. Revis. 46 ; Aschers. & Graebn. 

 Syn. Mittel-eur. Fl. vi. 66 (as R. pomifera Herrm. a. 1). Leaflets 

 with numerous subfoliar glands ; fruit usually larger than in type 

 mollis, red when ripe, aciculate or naked ; petals not ciliate. 



Too near to R. mollis Sm., and especially to its var. caralea 



Woods, to be dissociated from it. 



Continental authors unite it to 



pomifi 



North of England and Scotland. North Stafford ! West Lanes I 

 West and North-west Yorks ; Northumberland ! Renfrew ! Rox- 

 burgh ! Edinburgh ! Fife ! Mid Perth ! South Aberdeen ! Elgin ! 

 West Inverness ! Lanark ! West Sutherland ! 



Var. candea. R. rillosa var. carulea Woods in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xii. 193 (1817). i?. mollissima var. carulea Desegl. Revis. sect. 

 Toment. 38 (1866). R. mollis var. ccendea Baker ex D6s<5gl. in 



