ROSA DUMETORUM 
Dod remarks, there are almost as many descriptions of the Rose as 
there are authors to describe it 1 ; all these descriptions differ more or 
less from each other. Crdpin himself was in doubt as to which should 
be considered Thuillier’s type. Lindley regarded the dull grey hue 
occasioned by the dense pubescence its chief characteristic. 
It is generally distributed in Britain, but in the north and in 
Scotland it is replaced by Rosa coriifolia Fries. In the flowering 
stage the latter cannot readily be distinguished, but its sepals ascend 
after the petals fall and remain until the fruit ripens ; it has heads of 
short woolly styles, very short peduncles and coriaceous leaves ; the 
whole plant is dwarfer and more compact than Rosa dumetorum , and 
may be best described as a hairy-leaved Rosa canina. 
1 The Subsection Eu-Caninae of the Genus Rosa , p. 66 (Supplement to Journ. of Bot. vol. xlvi.) (1908). 
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