I 3 S— ROSA MOLLIS Smith 
Rosa mollis : caulebrevi, erecto; aculeis sparsis, conformibus, rectis, gracilibus, 
patulis ; foliolis 5-7, late ovalibus, subobtusis, magnitudine mediocribus, duplicato- 
serratis, utrinque molliter griseo-pubescentibus ; rhachi pubescente, aciculata et 
minute glandulosa ; stipulis adnatis, glanduloso-ciliatis, pubescentibus, apicibus 
liberis, ovatis ; floribus 1-4; pedicellis hispidis, rarius nudis ; calycis tubo globoso, 
hispido vel nudo ; lobis lanceolatis, apice elongatis, dorso pubescentibus et glandu- 
losis, omnibus simplicibus vel majoribus parce pinnatifidis ; petalis magnitudine 
mediocribus, plerumque rubris; stylis liberis, inclusis, villosis ; fructu pyriformi, 
saepe cernuo, rubro, pulposo, sepalis erectis conniventibus coronato. 
R. mollis Smith, Eng. Bot. vol. xxxv. t. 2459 (1813); Eng. FI. vol. ii. p. 381 
(1824). — Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. vol. ii. p. 618 ( excl . var. pomifera) (1825). 
— Koch, Synops. FI. Germ. p. 228 (1837). — Ddsdglise in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
vol. xv. p. 577 [Cat. Rais. Ros. p. 322 [1877]) (1876). — Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
vol. xxi. p. 32 ( Primit . Monogr. Ros. fasc. vi. p. 692) (1882) ; vol. xxxi. pt. 2, p. 77 
(1892). — Christ in Boissier, FI. Orient. Suppl. p. 224 (1888). — Keller in Ascherson 
& Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. FI. vol. vi. p. 72 (1900). — C. K. Schneider,///. Hand- 
buch Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 554 (1906). 
R. villosa Linnaeus, Sp. Plant, ed. 2, p. 704 [ex parte) (1764). — Guimpel, 
Willdenow & Hayne, Abbild. Deutsch. Holzart. vol. i. p. 1 16, t. 88 (1815). — Woods 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xii. p. 189 (1818). — Nouv. Duhamel , vol. vii. p. 44, t. 15, 
fig. 1 (1819). — Borrer in Hooker, Brit. FI. p. 230 (1830). — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. 
Am. Hort. vol. iv. p. 1550 [excl. syn. R. pomifera Herrm.) (1902). 
R. villosa , var. mollissima Rau, Enum. Ros. p. 154 (1816). — Dippel, Handbuch 
Laubholzk. vol. iii. p. 577 (1893). — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. vol. iv. 
P- 1553 (1902). 
R. heterophylla Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xii. p. 195 (1818). 
R. tomentosa, var. mollis Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 77, No. 45 [non Borkhausen, 
Forstbot. vol. ii. p. 1314 [1803]) (1820). 
R. tomentosa , var. mollissima Dumortier, Prodr. FI. Belg. p. 93 (1827). 
R. mollissima Fries, Novit. ed. 2, p. 15 1 (non Willdenow) (1828). — Syme in 
Eng. Bot. ed. 3, vol. iii. p. 208, t. 466 (1864). — Grenier, FI. Jur. p. 231 (1865). — 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 211 (1869). 
R. Heldreicliii Boissier & Reuter, Diagn. PI. Or. sdr. 2, fasc. ii. p. 49 (1856). — 
Boissier, FI. Orient, vol. ii. p. 681 (1872). 
R. villosa, var. mollis Koehne, Deutsche Dendrol. p. 285 (1893). 
Stems short, erect; prickles scattered, uniform, slender, straight. Leaflets 
5-7, broadly oval, subobtuse, middle-sized, doubly toothed, clothed with soft grey 
pubescence on both surfaces ; petioles pubescent, aciculate and minutely glandular ; 
stipules adnate, pubescent, gland-ciliated, with ovate free tips. Flowers 1-4, middle- 
sized ; pedicels usually hispid. Calyx-tube globose, hispid or naked ; lobes lanceo- 
late, long-pointed, glandular and pubescent on the back, all simple or the largest 
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