226 MR. J. G. baker's MO:N^OaRAPII OF BRITISH ROSES. 



Herb. 108-111, 115, 116; Smith, Engl FL ii. p. 394 ; Beseg, Moiu 

 p. 61, Exsic. 12 ; Rent, Gen, p. 69 ; Dwm. Belg. p. 59. 



R. NiTENS et GLAUCESCENS, Desv, in Meraty FL Paris, p. 192. 



R. SwARTziANA et Afzeliana, Fries, FL HalL pp. 86, 87. 



R. FALLAX, Puget in Deseg, Exsic, 60. 



An arcLing bush often 10 or 12 feet high, with elongated arch- 

 ing branches. Prickles scattered, uniform, falcate, very robust, 

 3-5 lines long, and the scar as deep. Stipules quite naked on 

 both sides, and only slightly gland-ciliated. Fully developed leaves 

 of the barren shoot 3-4 inches long, with 7 leaflets ; the terminal 

 one obovate-oblong, 15-18 lines long by about three-quarters as 

 broad ; both sides quite naked, green or glaucous ; the serration 

 sharp and simple ; the teeth often quite glandless ; the petiole 

 with 2-4 hooked aciculi, but without hairs or glandular setae. 

 Flowers 1-4, on naked peduncles generally more than half an inch 

 long ; the corolla pinkish, 18-24 lines broad. Styles moderately 

 hairy. Fruit ovate-urceolate, 7-9 lines long, not changing colour 

 till October in the north, or late in September in the south of 

 England. Sepals f-| inch long, naked on the back, but little 

 gland-ciliated, the main ones copiously pinnate. 



In the broad sense of the term, as here defined, i?. canina is 

 universally dispersed through Britain, including Ireland, and is 

 in most districts far more common than any other Rose, or than 

 all the others put together. In the north of England it reaches 

 an altitude of 450 yards. It extends everywhere through Europe 

 except Lapland and Finland, and reaches the Canaries, Barbary, 

 Persia, and Siberia. Of the varieties here described, latetiana^ 

 dumalisj and urbica, with intermediates between them, are the 

 most common in Britain, all the others being much less frequent. 

 Of this, the names glaucescens and Afzeliana refer especially to the 

 plant with glaucous leaves. R. 3£ahnundariensis, Lej. FL Spa, i. 

 p. 231, a modification of this variety with sepals glandular on the 

 back, has been gathered by Rev. W. H. Purchas in Derbyshire. 



Var. suRCULOSA (IVoods). 



R. SURCULOSA, Woods, Linn, Trans, xii. p. 228,. Herb, 117-121. 



10-1 



2 



30) 



base and with more open teeth; the young shoots and leaves 

 often suff'used with red. 



Apparently confined to the south of England. 



