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Distribution general; probably the most abundant species of 

 the group, at least in Middle and South England. Glabrescent, or 

 even entirely glabrous, forms are occasionally met with. 



15. R. farinosa Rau, Enum. Rosarum circa Wirceburgum, 147 

 (1816) ; non Bechst. R. tomentosa Sm. var. farinosa Seringe in 

 DC. Prod. ii. 618 (J 825). Habit of JR. tomentosa ; stem and leaves 

 .glaucous; thorns long, slightly falcate, few; leaflets densely grey- 

 downy with very open double serration ; petioles whitish-downy ; 

 peduncles short, these and the calyx- tube naked ; sepals with long 

 narrow point, slightly pinnate, spreading after flowering, caducous ; 

 fruit obovoid, ripening in October. 



Rare and seldom quite typical in Britain. Perth, Hailstone ! 

 Stafford! Derby ! Salop ! Hereford ! Carmarthen ! Co. Down !, 

 Ireland. 



16. R. cinerascens Dumort. Flora Belg. 93 (1897). R. tomen- 

 tosa Sm. var. cinerascens Crep. Bull. Ac. Belg. Ser. 2, xiv. 106 (1862). 

 Habit of R. tomentosa ; thorns falcate, the main ones short ; leaves 

 oval-elliptic, densely grey-downy and soft, simply openly serrate ; 

 sepals as in R. farinosa ; peduncles glandular-aciculate ; calyx-tube 

 naked ; flower-clusters 1-3 ; fruit shortly elliptic or subglobose, 

 ripening in October. 



Rare. Perth, Barclay ! East Ross, Herb. Baiiey ! Stafford, 

 Alstonfield and Arehford Moor, Purchas I Derby, near Ashbourne, 

 Purchas ! Brecon, Craig Cille, Riddelsdell ! Radnor, Elan Valley ! 



All the British examples I have seen differ slightly from the 

 foreign type in having leave3 less densely grey-downy and soft. 



17. R. cuspidatoides Crepin in Scheutz. Studierd. skand. Rosa, 

 37 (1872). Bush arching ; main thorns falcate ; leaflets oval, 

 hairy on both sides, subfoliar glands usually numerous ; peduncle 

 and calyx-tube glandular-aciculate ; sepals nearly simple, shortly 

 appendiculate, reflexed or spreading, caducous ; fruit ovoid or sub- 

 rotund, ripening in October. 



Distribution general ; rather common in England. Cornwall I 

 S. Devon ! South Hants ! West Kent ! Surrey ! West Gloucester ! 

 Hereford ! Worcester ! Warwick ! Stafford ! Salop ! Carnarvon ! 

 Cheshire I Mid-west Yorks ! Northumberland I Elgin 1 



Var. britannica. R. britannica Desegl. ex Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xi. 218 (1869). R. Jundzilliana Baker (non Besser) in 

 Naturalist, i. 05 (1864). Differs from the type in the thorns being 

 very robust, almost uncinate ; in the leaflets being large, very hairy; 

 and in the clusters being of very numerous flowers. 

 -- Rare. Cheshire, Webb ! Hereford ! Worcester 1 Flint t 



Var. fietida. J!, fmtufa Bast. Fior. Maine et Loire, Suppl. 29 



(1812). ^ Differs from the type in having glabrous styles, and in the 

 fruit being ovoid. 



Widely distributed and rather common in England? " besonders 

 in Gros-brittannien verbreitet," Keller in Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. 

 S. Devon ! North Somerset ! West Kent ! Surrey I Hereford ! 

 Worcester ! Radnor ! Carnarvon ! Yorks ! 



18. R. obovata. R. tomentosa Sm. var. obovata Baker, Mon. 



