21G MK. J. a. baker's monogbaph of British roses. 



always, a few inconspicuous glands scattered over the surface ; 

 the stipules copiously gland-ciliated, thinly hairy and glandular 

 on the back ; the petiole densely downy and more glandular, 

 with a few scattered aciculi, w^hich are sometimes decidedly 

 hooked. Flowers generally 1 to 3, the peduncle 6-12 lines long, 

 more or less densely aciculate and glanduloso-setose. Corolla 

 bright rose-pink, or not unfrequently pure white, 18-21 lines 

 across when expanded ; the petals rarely gland-ciliated. Calyx- 

 tube in the ordinary form oblong, either prickly or naked. 

 Styles hairy. Sepals ascending after the petals fall, densely glan- 

 dular on the back, |— ^ inch long, the main ones copiously pin- 

 nate, lasting till after the fruit changes colour, but not truly 

 persistent. Fruit ovate-urceolate in the typical form, or some- 

 times turbinate, 9-12 lines long by 8-9 lines broad, never pen- 

 dent, ripening in the north of England through September, 

 furnished with a medium-sized disk, like that of canina. 



This appears to be universally distributed through Britain. 

 I have seen it from Caithness {B, Dick) and Sutherland {Prof. 

 Oliver)^ dow'n to Cornwall and Devonshire {T. i2. A. Briggs) 

 and Sussex {Borrer^ &c.), and gathered it myself in the Isle of 

 Wight, and up to 550 yards in the north of England- It is 

 spread over both the north and south of Ireland. M. Dcseglise 

 refers the three specimens in my fasciculus to three of his 

 species — tomentosa^ cuspidata^ and Andrzeiouskii. To me they 

 seem to represent fairly what I can only consider a single variety. 

 Tomentosa of Deseglisc, which is unusually softly grey-downy 

 and nearly destitute of glands, is rarely seen in Britain ; cuspi- 

 data^ which is harsher on both sides of the leaf and distinctly 

 glandular beneath, is very common j and Andrzeiouskii comes 

 between tbem. The distribution of the plant in Scandinavia we 

 have stated already. It is common all over Central Europe, 

 both amongst the bills and in the plains, and reaches Spain, 

 Algiers, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. To this also I refer 

 J2. rmwoscf, Deseglise, Herb. Eos. 75 (Billot, Exsic. 360!, non 

 Sternberg), and a Yorkshire plant which Deseglise calls by this 

 name, which is moderately downy and distinctly glandular be- 

 low. The plants called by Dr. Moore, in ^ Cybele Hibernica,' 

 p. 97, tomentosa and scahriicscula, he has cultivated side by side 

 in the Glasnevin Garden, and found to come true from seed for 

 at least two generations ; and yet his scahriuscula does not differ 

 from the type nearly as much as the plant just to be described 



