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M. DESEGLISE'S EEYISION OE THE GROUP TOMENTOS^^ 



OF THE GENUS ROSA, . 



By Chas. p. Hobkirk. 



( Continued from page 130.j 



Lapeyxouse, Hist. Abreg. des Pyrenees (1813), p. 284, N"o. 9, gives for 

 his description the diagnostic phrase of the fiora hritannica without any 

 comment. 



Trattinick, Rosacearum monographia (1823), vol. i. p. 117, says: — 

 " Eoliolis elliptico ovatis, utrinque moUisime tomentosis, suh-cinerascentibus," 



Smith, English Flora (1824), vol. ii. p. 383, JSTo. 9 Leaves 

 glandulose beneath." The synonyms cited are contradictory to the descrip- 

 tions ! Thus, "Flora britannica (1800), foliis utrinque moUisime 

 tomentosis." Lindley, " Leaves covered with a whitish down, and sometimes 

 glandulose beneath, exhaling on pressm-e an odour of terebinth." Lindley 

 may say that the leaves are sometimes glandulose, since he admits R. 

 scah'utscula Sm. as a variety of R. tomentosa \ but his type A. vera is none 

 the less deprived of glands on its under surface. 



Yillars, fl. du Dauphine vol. iii. p. 551, says, "The leaves from five to 

 seven, are wide, more or less pointed, villose on both sides." Bauhin, hist, 

 pi., vol. ii. p. 44 fig. Good : The figure is far from being good, as the 

 peduncles, calyx-tube, and calyx divisions are glabrous, which is in contra- 

 diction to the text of the English Flora ! since Bauhin says in his descrip- 

 tion : — " Cui foliola quina, vel septena, subrotunda, rugosa albicantia hirsuta 

 non nihil odorata." 



Duby, Botanicon Gallicum (1828), vol. i. p. 178, "Eoliolis ovatis , 



plus minus tomentosis j" in his var. A., type of his tomentosa^ he says, 

 "Eoliolis moUiter tomentosis." 



Host, flora Austriaca (1831), vol. ii. p, 21, " Foliola ovata s errata villosa, 

 facie saturate dorso pallide vuidia/' 



Reichenbach, fl. excurs. (1830), JSTo. 3975, "Eoliolis ovali-ellipticis 

 duplicato patenti-serratis cano-pubescentibus." 



Hooker, British Flora (1835), p. 234, certainly makes a confusion much 

 to be regretted. He seems to us to describe as R. tomentosa^ the R. scahr'ms- 



