192 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
Though very downy, the leaves of this Rose are generally green 
above; but I have specimens which are considerably gray. Mr. 
Sabine has a plant from Mr. G. Don, which differs from this 
only in a harsher pubescence. 
B. cerulea. Fruit and peduncle nearly smooth ; flowers blush- 
red. The glaucous waxiness of the young shoots is very 
conspicuous and very beautiful in this variety :. the leaves 
are more glandular, the bracteæ are in general smaller, and 
the habit is more slender than ine. The plant from whence 
I have taken this account was sent from Scotland, by Mr. 
G. Jackson, to Mr. Vere's garden, and from thence received 
by Mr. Sabine ; but I have specimens nearly similar collected 
by Mr. Robertson near Newcastle, and by Mr. D. Turner at 
Killin; and I have met with it myself in Friars Wood, near 
Ingleton. | 
y. concavifolia. Leaflets remarkably concave, or conduplicate 
and hoary. Bracteæ lanceolato-ovate; receptacle globose. 
Scotland, Mr. Borrer. 
à. suberecta. Fruit globose, that and the petiole furnished with 
strong sete; flowers deep red. Stems stiff and upright ; 
leaflets 7, sometimes 9, elliptic, concave; stem, petioles, sti- 
pule, young prickles, and midrib, of a vinous red. The 
general appearance of this variety is such as to make me wish 
to consider it as a distinct species; but I have not been able 
to fix on any good character. In smell, in the abundance of 
glands underneath the leaves, and even in habit, it ap- 
proaches somewhat to R. Eglanteria; it is not however en- 
tirely free from the turpentine flavour which accompanies 
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