MR. J. G. BAKEli's MONOUUArU OK BUITISU KOSES. 205 



Though involuta is the name which has the right of priority, 

 yet the variety afterwards called Sabiniis much the most common, 

 aud I therefore take it first. 



Var. Sabini {Woods). 



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R. Sabini, Woods, Li 



Exsic, 1,2; Dumort. Belg. j). 42. 



Review 



R. NIVALIS, Donn, Hort, Cant, edit. 8, p. 170. 



R. CORONATA, Crepin, Notes, ii. p. 25 ; Wirtg. Exsic. 1 858, No. 270, and 

 1860, no. 270 bis ; Rent. Gen. p. G7 ; Gren. FL Jura, p. 231. 



R. SABAUDA ^. CORONATA, Rapin, Vaud Guide, 2nd edit. p. 1D2. 



In exposed places an erect shrub 2-4 feet h 

 compact branches with dense prickles passing down by gra- 

 dual stages into aciculi ; iu shade or hedges sometimes drawn out 

 aud arching. Pull-grown prickles 3-1 lines long, scarcely at all 

 curved or thickened in the lower part; the scar \ inch deep. 

 Stipules hairy on the back, and sometimes slightly glandular, 

 densely gland^ciliated. Well- developed leaves of the barren 

 shoots 2|-3 inches long ; the terminal leaflet ovate-oblong, 9-12 

 lines long by three-quarters as broad; the base broadly rounded, 

 or even cordate; the teeth open and copiously compound; the 

 upper surface thinly grey-pubescent, the lower more so, and often 

 slightly glandular. Petioles densely hairy, glanduloso-setose, and 

 aciculate. Plowers 1-3 ; the peduncle 6-12 lines long, densely 

 aciculate and setose; the calyx-tube subglobose, more or less 

 densely aciculate ; the sepals |-| inch long, densely glandular on 

 the back, lengthened out into a decidedly leafy point, and copi- 

 ously gland-ciliated, the main ones with one or two small narrow 

 pinnae on each side. Corolla varying from pure white to deep 

 pink, 1| or even 2 inches across when expanded. Styles densely 

 villose. Sepals ascending after the petals fall, quite persistent 

 upon the erect roundish red fruit, which measures 7-8 lines each 

 ^ay, and changes colour in the north of England late in September 

 or early in October, and is only produced very sparingly- Disk 

 none. 



Sparsely distributed through Britain, from the Isle of "Wight 

 {Uerb, Watsonl) and Sussex (Borrerl) northward to Caithness 

 {R. Dick !), ascending to 300 yards in Yorkshire, and probably to 

 a considerable height in Forfarshire, as Don localizes a specimen 



