BRITISH ROSES OF THE MOLLIS-TOMENTOSA GROUP 205 



Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xv. 578 (1876). Differs from the type in the 

 leaflets having subfoliar glands varying in quantity but seldom 

 numerous ; in the peduncle and fruit being glabrous ; in the young 

 branches being often glaucous ; and in the fruit being smaller. 



Distribution as in the type ; extending southward to Mont- 

 gomery ! Radnor ! Brecon ! Carmarthen ! and Cardigan ! 



3. R. submollis. Bush less robust than in the preceding, with 

 strong arching surculi. Very near E. mollis, with the thorns 

 equally narrow based but rather shorter and rather more curved ; 

 the leaflets broadly elliptic, hairy beneath ; the peduncle long or 

 short, always straight ; the sepals suberect in fruit and persistent 

 until the fruit has changed colour, but finally caducous ; the fruit 

 large ovoid, the primordial pyroid, ripening later. 



Distribution general ? Somerset ! Surrey I Herts ! Bucks ! 

 Hunts ! W. Gloucester I Hereford ! Worcester ! Stafford ! Salop ! 

 Glamorgan ! Brecon ! Radnor ! Montgomery ! Merioneth ! Car- 

 narvon ! S. Lincoln ! Derby ! West Lanes! N. E. Yorks ! Durham ! 

 Northumberland ! Westmoreland ! Cumberland ! Dumfries ! Kirk- 

 cudbright ! Wigton I Renfrew I Selkirk ! Fife ! West and Mid 

 Perth! Elgin! East and West Inverness! Skye I West Sutherland ! 

 Down !, Ireland. 



4. R. omissa Desegl. in Billotia, p. 47 (1864). Habit tufted, 

 with close-set flexuose branches; thorns long, straight, compressed ; 

 leaflets oval-elliptic, with numerous subfoliar glands ; peduncles very 

 short, entirely hidden by the large bracts ; fruit obovoid pyroid 

 glabrous ; sepals suberect persistent until maturity of the fruit, 

 then caducous ; petals bright rose. 



Rare in Britain. Stafford ! Salop ! Montgomery ! Denbigh I 

 Flint! Derby! Cheshire! Cumberland! Kirkcudbright! Renfrew! 

 Fife! Stirling! Mid Perth! Forfar! E. Ross! Taransay in the 

 Hebrides ! Antrim !, Ireland. 



Var. resinosoides. E. omissa Desegl. var. resinosoides Crepin in 



Billot. Exsicc. 3601 ; Bull. Soc. Belg. xxi. 1, 98 (1882). 11. omissa, 

 A, 1, 2, resinosoides R. Keller in Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. vi. 76, 

 1900. Differs from the type in the thorns being unequal, straight 

 or slightly bent, slenderer and in part acicular on the flower-shoots ; 

 in the peduncles being longer, the clusters of flower more numerous, 

 and in the ovate aciculate fruit. 



Much more generally distributed in Britain than the type. 

 S. Devon ! Isle of Wight ! West Kent ! Herts ! West Gloucester ! 

 Monmouth! Hereford! Worcester! Stafford ! Radnor ! Carnarvon! 

 Derby! Cheshire! N.E.YorksI Northumberland! Westmoreland! 

 Cumberland! Dumfries! Kirkcudbright! Wigton! Roxburgh! Fife! 

 West, Mid, and East Perth ! Forfar ! East and West Inverness ! 

 Argyle! E. Ross! Antrim!, Down I, East Mayo I, Galway !, 



Ireland. 



5. R. pseudorubiginosa Lejeune, Fl. Spa. i. 229 (1811). E. 

 Arduenuensis Crepin in Bull. Ac. Belg. 2, Ser. xiv. 101 (1862). 

 Thorns long, narrow, straight ; leaflets small, oval to oval-oblong, 

 hairy on both sides ; subfoliar glands numerous, the upper surface 



