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THE NATUBALIST. 



equalling the corolla, upright after flowering ; styles villose, disc veiy short ; 

 corolla large of a bright rose colour ; fruit globular, orange red, crowned by 

 the connivent, persistent calyx-divisions. 



May, hedges and thickets, Belgium. England, hedges at Thirsk ; 

 (Baker.) 



III. K. cuspiDATA, Bieb. fl. tauro-cauc. (1808-19) 1, p. 396; 3, p. 339; 

 Tratt., monog. ros. 1, p. 121 ; Echb. fl. excm^s. 2^ p. 616 ; Mutel fl. fr. i. p. 

 348; Boreau fl. cent. ed. 3, !N"o. 889; Deseg. monog. No. 96; Cariot etudes 

 des fleurs, ed. 4, vol. ii. p. 190 ; R. Seringiana, Godr. fl. lorr. ed. 2, vol. ii., p. 

 255 ; R. tomentosa, Woods, Brit. sp. of Rosa (1816) in trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 

 xii. p. 197, et herb. No. 38 (non Smith) ; Grenier fl. Jurass. (1864), p. 234 ; 

 "Wirtgen exsic. No. 344 ; Baker, Herb. Ros, Brit. No. 9. 



R. germinibus ovatis pedunculis calycibusque hisjndis, aculeis caulinis 

 validis recurvis, petiolis glanduloso-villosis aculeatis, foliolis ( ma.jusculis ) ovato- 

 laneeolatis, acutis argute glandidoso-biserratis, utrin(iue villosis subtus glandu- 

 loso-scabris ; jioribus corymbosis. M. Bieb. I.e. vol. iii., p. 339, No. 975. 



A low shrub, branching, prickles somewhat robust, whitish, scattered' 

 those of the stem dilated at the base, somewhat curved at the summit, those 

 of the young branches rounded at the base, horizontal; petioles villose 

 glandulose, prickly ; leaflets 5-7 the lateral petiolate, the terminal one rounded 

 at the base, m0re or less attenuate-pointed at the summit, rather large, oval- 

 lanceolate, more or less obtuse and attenuate at the summit, more or less 

 pubescent above, whitish, softly villose tvith synall scattered glands beneath, 

 doubly dentate, with glandulose teeth ; stipules pubescent above, pubescent 

 and glandulose beneath, the upper ones dilated, with pointed divergent 

 auricles ; peduncles hispid, solitary or corymbose (3-10), furnished at the 

 base with oval acuminate bracts, pubescent and bearing scattered glands 

 beneath, equal to, or longer than, the peduncles ; calyx-tube ovoid, hispid ; 

 calyx divisions tomentose inside, glandulose beneath, with appendages, 2 

 entire, 3 pinnatifid, with linear lanceolate appendages bordered with pedicil- 

 late shining glands, equalling the corolla, reflexed, afterwards upright and 

 caducous ; styles rough, disc plane ; flowers rose-colour^ becoming afterwards 

 white; fruit ovoid, red. 



France. Belgium. England — Holywell, Northumberland ; Cleveland, 

 Thirsk, Thornton, Gormire, Yorkshire (the Gormire specimens differ in 

 having the branches without prickles) ; Baker. 



lY. R. TuNONiENSis, Deseg. Herb. ros. No. 36. May and June, upland 

 thickets, Savoy. 



