220 MK. J. G. BAKEH's MOyOGKAPH OF BRITISH ROSES. 



under ^ inch long, densely clothed with glandular seta^ and 

 strong aciculi. Calyx-tube subglobose or broad ovate-urceolate, 

 usually aciculate. Corolla generally full rose, 12-15 lines across 

 when expanded. Styles densely villose. Sepals densely glandular 

 on the back, the larger ones 7-8 lines long, slightly leaf-pointed, 

 with 2-3 pairs of spreading linear pinnse, not falling till after the 

 fruit changes colour, which is not till October or late in Septem- 

 ber. Eipe fruit subglobose, measuring about | inch each way. 



This, the common Sweet-briar of gardens, is a plant of such 

 long-standing cultivation that it is very difficult to judge at the 

 present time which are its really wild stations. It is plainly in- 

 digenous amongst the chalk-hills of the south of England, but in 

 the north of England, though tolerably plentiful in hedges in 

 some districts (as, for instance, round the foot of the Cheviots 

 near WooUer), I have never seen it amongst the cliffs or in the 

 aboriginal woods of the mountain-valleys, like canina, tomentosa^ 

 and mollissima, I have seen specimens from as far north as Perth 

 and Inverness. Messrs. Moore and More do not claim it with 

 any confidence as a native of Ireland. It is common as a truly 

 wild plant in Central Europe, extending to TenerifFe, (jrreece, 

 Tauria, and Persia. After the study of numerous authenticated 

 specimens, I cannot draw any line of distinction between the plants 

 quoted as synonyms. 



Var. PER MIXTA {Deseglise), 



R. PERMixTA, Deseg. Mon, p. 10/, Exsic. 72- 



R. MicRANTHA, vaf. PERMIXTA, Greu. FL Jura, p. 252; Dumort. Ros, 

 Belg, p. 55. 



Leaves in our plant quite without hairs, but as densely glan- 

 dular on the under surface and petiole as in the type ; styles 

 quite glabrous ; fruit ovate-urceolate, half as long again as broad, 

 and decidedly narrowed at the neck, densely prickly, the sepals 

 fallen before it reddens. 



Surrey, bank of the valley in which Teucrium Botrys grows on 

 Box Hill (Borrerl). This recedes from the type towards micran- 

 tha by the naked styles and shape of the fruit, but in other respects 

 agrees with the type. 



Var, svLvicoLA {D^sSg, et Ripart). 



R. SVLVICOLA, Dis^g. et Ripart, MSS.l 



Bush laxer and not so strongly scented as in the type, prickles 



