Mr. SaBINE's Notice respecting a Native British Rose. 541 
therefore removed some suckers into the garden of my friend Mr. Robert 
Jenkinson, at Norbiton in the neighbourhood, where they have blossomed in 
the present year. The plant turns out to be a variety of Rosa Doniana, exactly 
corresponding with that from Sussex, given by Mr. Borrer in the Supplement 
to English Botany, folio 2601, except that the fruit is smooth, though the 
calyx and peduncles are beset with small spines. It agrees exactly in every 
point with the description above quoted from Ray, and therefore I have no 
doubt that it is the Rose found by Sherard, and probably existing in the 
identical locality where he discovered it. * This is in the hedge of the first field 
on the right side of the high road from London, in descending Kingston Hill, 
after passing the George Inn. 
The description in Ray of this Rose is imperfect: had it been stated that 
the fruit was small as well as globose, and that the branches bore both setze 
and aculei, there would have been little difficulty in assigning to it its proper 
place in the genus; and as in the time of Hudson, and indeed until a much 
later period, Rosa spinosissima was the only species of the setigerous section 
described by British botanists, it would probably have been referred to that. 
In the present day we have a transition of species from R. spinosissima through 
R. rubella, R. involuta, R. Doniana, and R. Sabini, all belonging to the seti- 
gerous Roses, and in the last species approaching to R. tomentosa of the 
next section, which contains the species having straight aculei but without 
sete, 
