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observed one or two plants of this species at Pooley-Bridge in 
Cumberland ; and again in 1814. At the latter time I likewise 
gathered specimens from a plant in the neighbourhood of Kes- 
wick: but as I have neither seen nor heard of it elsewhere, I 
conclude it to be a rare plant. 
I can hardly have any doubt as to the correctness of the syno- 
nym I have quoted. In the Rose figured in Engi. Bot. the prickles 
on the stem, by their number, scattered disposition, and slender- 
ness, appear to indicate what I have called setæ, or at least 
the small aculei approaching to sete. This point established, 
it must belong to the setigerous tribe; and we have only to 
determine between R. Doniana, R. gracilis, and R. Sabini. Un- 
fortunately the large falcate prickles, the strongest character of 
R. gracilis, are wanting; but this is a circumstance which I 
conceive may occasionally occur in a single specimen; while on 
the other hand the size and habit of the plant, the binate pe- 
duncles, and the form of the calyx-leaves, induce me to refer it 
to this species rather than to either of the others, and the place 
of its growth strengthens this supposition. I am much more con- 
fident that the plant of Engl. Bot. is not the R. villosa of Linnæus, 
or that of Hudson, or even of the Flora Britannica: The descrip- 
tion “aculei caulini rariusculi” pointedly disagrees with the figure; 
and all authors unite in attributing to R. villosa ** aculei sparsi;” 
and in this genus Linnzus, from whom the term is borrowed, 
opposes “ sparsi" to * conferti," and uses it to express the com- 
paratively small number of aculei. The term would therefore be 
quite inapplicable to this plant and to the figure in Engl. Bot., sup- 
posing, as would necessarily be the case, the setae (never before 
distinguished from the aculei) to be included under the same 
term. The figure of the fruit, in which the calyx is remarkably 
compound, appears to have been drawn from a different plant, 
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