202 MR, J- G. baker's monograph or BRITISH ROSES. 



the terminal one 6 to 8 lines long by three-quarters as broad; blunt, 

 the base generally rounded ; the serratures quite simple, mode- 

 rately sharp and open ; texture firm, with transparent yenation ; 

 both sides quite glabrous and glandless. Petioles without hairs, 

 but often with a few glands. Peduncles invariably solitary and 

 bractless, generally 6 to 9 lines long, naked, more or less densely 

 beset with setse and aciculi. Calyx-tube globose, naked, or very 

 rarely slightly aciculate. Sepals invariably quite simple, -f to | 

 inch long, naked on the back ; the point slightly leafy and gland- 

 ciliated. Corolla 12 to 18 lines across when expanded, white, with 

 a yelloAv throat, rarely variegated with red. Styles densely vil- 

 lose. Disk none. Pruit depresso-globose, dark purple, with a 

 dark purple juice; 5 to 6 lities broad, quite naked, crowned with 

 the erect persistent sepals ; changing colour in September in the 

 low country in England. 



In Britain, extending from the south of England to Caithness, 

 ascending in the north of England to 500 yards above the sea-level, 

 and in the Scotch Highlands to nearly GOO yards, and in Ireland 

 also reaching from the north to the south, with a preference for 

 the sands of the seashore, and, inland, for limestone. Though it is 

 the only Eose known in Iceland, yet in Scandinavia it is much 

 less boreal in its range than mollissima or canina, being restricted, 

 like to7nentosa, to the south-west. It is universally distributed 

 through Central and Southern Europe, reaching the Barbary 

 States, Cashmere, and, through Siberia, to the north of China (Prof. 

 Bunge !). Though it varies much according to its place of growth 

 in luxuriance and the density of its prickles, we do not appear to 

 have in Britain any striking variety. "With us the form with a 

 naked peduncle is much the most common, that with an aciculate 

 peduncle quite rare. Lindley's var. platycarpa (Monog. p. 51) is a 

 small Irish form with an acicidate peduncle, his var, turUnata (Joe. 

 ciL) another small form wuth turbinate fruit, and his var. reversa 

 (i2. reversa, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 431, non Waldst. et Kit.) ano- 

 ther small form with slender deflexed prickles and ovate fruit. 

 Tlie form with the flowers variegated with red, i2. Giphima, Sib- 

 bald, Scot. ii. p. 46, t. 2, is the parent of many of the garden 

 Scotch Eoses. A plant with red fruit was gathered by Mr. Borrer 



Mr 



Mr 



Robertson in Durham. Ynr. pilosa, Lindh, 

 evidently does not belong here, but to R, involuta. B. sanguisor- 

 hifolla^ Donn, Ilort. Cant, edit. 8, p, 169, is a mere form of this, 



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