REPORT FOR 1914. 



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Rosa Eglanteria L. Peppard, Oxon, July 1906. — G. C. Druce. 

 " More advanced fruit necessary to say whether R. comosa Rip." — 



A. H. WOLLEY-DOD. 



Rosa suberecta Woods, mr. Westridge Wood and Nibley Knoll, 

 W. Gloucester, July 10 and September 29, 1904.— J. W. White. 

 " This is doubtless a variation of the omissa group of R. tomentosa 

 Sm. It is certainly not a variety of R. suberecta Woods. Nor do I 

 see how it can come under R. suberecta Ley, as it differs in all the 

 characters relying on which that so-called species has been segregated. 

 It has not pi ickles straight or nearly so, but stout and decidedly falcate. 

 Its calyx tube is not densely aciculate, the fruit is not globose. The 

 petioles have not 'numerous unequal falcate acicles and pricklets,' but 

 are mostly quite unanned. No red colour is perceptible in the younger 

 parts, and not more than is common to many species in the older 

 branch. It might as easily be made a variety of R. Sherardi Ley and 

 more easily a var. of R. Andrezovii Ley." — W. Barclay. " Flowering 

 examples only, showing very little of the armature. I consider this 

 to be R. tomeritosa Sm., and cannot see any likeness to Ley's own 

 examples of his species — R. suberecta luey = R. villosa L., var. sub- 

 erecta Woods." — C. E. Britton. 



Rosa tomentosa Sm. [Ref. No. 1368.] Harden Park, Surrey, 

 Sept. 6, 1914.— C. E. Britton. "Belongs, I think, to the 

 scabriuscula group of R. tomentosa Sm., differing from var. 

 scabriuscula Sm. in its more hairy and somewhat glaucous leaflets, 

 its prickles less slender and more hispid styles. The serration of 

 the leaves is also less deep and less compound." — W. Barclay. 



Rosa pimpinelli/olia L. x tomentosa Sm. [Ref. No. 69 (1).] 

 Elliot Den, near Arbroath, v.-c. 90, July 27 and September 13, 1914. 

 Growing with both parents. The tomentosa forms near it belong to 

 the groups subglobosa Sm. and omissa Desegl. Serratures nearly 

 simple, fruit broadly ovate or almost globular, with a short neck. — 

 R. & M. CoRSTORPHiNE. " No. 69 (1) has a look of a mollis x 

 spinosissima, to my eye." — E. S. Marshall. 



Rosa involuta Sm., var. [Ref. No. 66 (3).] Cuthlie Den, near 

 Arbroath, v.-c. 90, July 27 and September 13, 1914. Bush 

 — tall, straggling ; petals — large, pink ; fruit — long, urceolate, 

 with longish neck ; leaflets — almost uniserrate, slightly hairy above, 

 more so beneath, with a few glands on the midrib. — R. & M. 

 CoRSTORPHiNE. " An interesting hybrid. The second parent can be 

 better guessed at on the spot." — E. S. Marshall. "These two forms 

 are practically the same, except that in the second the fruit is 

 elliptic-oblong, or in some cases turbinate, whereas in the former it is, 

 as is more usually the case, globose. Both have the serration 



