198 . MR. J. HOGG ON THE ROSA RUBELLA OF WINCH. 
Dr. Horsfield, and recently presented to the Linnean Society by 
the East India Company, has been, within the past few weeks, 
poisoned, mounted, and arranged. __ 
The species already described by Messrs. Bennett and Brown in 
the ‘ Plante Javanice Rariores, and also to a considerable extent 
those of Professor Miquel in the * Flora Indi: Batavæ, have been 
written up with their respective references. A number of the spe- 
cimens have been labelled by Miquel himself. The collection is, 
at present, placed in a cabinet immediately adjoining that con- 
taining the Wallichian Herbarium, to which it may be regarded 
as supplementary. 
On the Rosa rubella of Winch. By Јонх Hole, Esq., F.R.S., 
F.L.S. 
[Read Dec. lst, 1859.] 
AnovT the summer of 1823, I discovered in a hedge on the south 
of the lane leading from Carlton to Norton, in the county of 
Durham, a rose which had so mùch of the general appearance of 
Rosa spinosissima that I then considered it to be a variety of that 
species, —only that it had pink flowers; I therefore named it, in my 
short * Catalogue of Plants’ which was published a few years after- 
wards in Brewster's * History of Stockton,’ as “ Rosa spinosissima, 
var. flore rubro." Many plants of that species were also growing 
near the same spot. Some years afterwards, at the request of Mr. 
Winch, I again made search for that rose, and after a lapse of 
some two or three years I rediscovered the plant in blossom, having 
pink flowers ; I sent a specimen to Mr. Winch, and he informed 
me that it was Rosa rubella. 
Two years ago the late Mr. Storey, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, an 
able botanist, who was engaged in making a more accurate list of 
the plants indigenous in the counties of Durham and Northumber- 
land, asked me to forward him specimens both in flower and in 
fruit (їп the autumn). In 1857 and 1858 I duly investigated that 
part of the lane where I remembered that the plant from which I 
sent Mr. Winch the specimen was growing, but I only found what 
I thought was the same plant, although not in flower, or in fruit, 
in either of those years. 
In June, however, of this year I was extremely pleased to 
behold one of the same plants in blossom, bearing two flowers of 
a lovely blush, or pink colour, of which the dried specimen I now 
