i 3 8— 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. ft pomifera)(i82$). 
— Koch, Synops. FI. Germ. p. 228 (1837). — Des^glise 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 (Prhmt. Monogr. Ros. fasc. vi. p. 692) (1882) ; vol. xxxi. pt. 2, p. 77 
(! 892).— Christ in Boissier, El. Orient. Suppl. p. 224 (1888).— Keller in Ascherson 
& Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. El. vol. vi. p. 7 2 (19°°)- — C. K. Schneider,///. Hand- 
buck 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. Duhaniel , 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. pomif era Herrm.) (1902). ^ 
R. villosa , var. mollissima Rau, Enunt. Ros. p. 154 (1 8 1 6 ). Dippel, H andbuch 
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 Lind ley, Ros. Monogr. p. 77 > No. 45 [non Borkhausen, 
For st bot. vol. ii. p. 1314 [1803]) (1820). 
R. tomentosa , var. mollissima Dumortier, Prodr. FI. Belg. p. 93 (1827). 
R. mollissima Fries, Novit. ed. 2, p. 151 {non Willdenow) (1828).— Syme in 
Eng. Bot. ed. 3, vol. iii. p. 208, t. 466 (1864).— Grenier, FI. Jur. p. 231 (1865).— 
Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 211 (1869). 
R. Heldreichii Boissier & Reuter, Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 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 
) 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 laigest 
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