186 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
species runs less at the roots than the other. This I have not had 
an opportunity of examining; but the roots of the Sussex plant 
appear to extend themselves considerably. The mode of growth 
is certainly much looser and more diffuse. 
From R. gracilis this species is distinguished by its mucb 
smaller size, both in the whole plant and in each part; by its 
peduncles, almost invariably solitary, and by the total want of 
the large curved aculei so characteristic of that plant —From 
R. Sabini by the leafits of the calyx, which in that species are uni- 
formly divided. No other British Rose can be confounded with it. 
6. Rosa GRACILIS. 
R. bracteata, sahil setigeris, calycibus simplicibus, foliolis 
photos ueque pun aculeis uota: fal- 
catis. - i 
R. villosa. Engl. Bot. ix. t. 583. (excl Syn n. et Tij. fructus) - 
Frutex 8—10-pedalis. Rami vagi, intense fusci, heolia, setigerique ; aculei majores 
faleati, subbinato-stipulares ; minores recti, sparsi, setas forma referentes et in has 
demum sensim transeuntes.  Petioli villosi; glandulosi, aculeis parvis subfalcatis mu- 
niti. Stipulz lineares, acuminate, glanduloso-serratæ, glabriuscule, ex floribus pro- 
piores latiores, et interdum, foliis deficientibus, in bracteas parvas ovatas acumina- 
tas immutate. Foliola 7 vel 9, par superius et foliolum impar ceteris majora, omnia 
elliptica, duplicato-serrata, utrinque hirsuta, margine glandulosa, quod interdum etiam 
subtus in nervo, sed nunquam, ut credo, in superficie paginæ inferioris accidit, Pe- 
dunculi 1 —3, plerumque binati, setis inæqualibus obsiti, hoc qui prior evenit erecto, 
illo graciliore, longiore, nutante. Receptaculum globosum, nunc setis pedunculi instar 
munitum, nune totus glaber. Calycis foliola triangulari-lanceolata, petala æquantia ; 
rarissiime in his conspicitur pinnula filiformis. Flores subcyathiformes, petala ob- 
cordata, pulcherrime rubescentia, basi alba. — S/yli inclusi, stigmatibus hemisphe- 
ricis, Fructus globosus: maturum non vidi. 
The specimen figured in English Botany was sent by Mr. Robson, 
. probably from the vicinity of Darlington ; and | have received 
it from the same place under the name of R. villosa. In 1808 I 
observed 
