194 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
R. scabriuscula. Engl. Bot. xxvii. t.1896. Winch Bot. Guide, ii. 
Pr. p- à 
Frutex 4—6-pedalis. Rami vagi, fusco-olivacei, aculeati; aculei recti, gracilis omnis qui 
in situ eodem ejusdem fere magnitudinis, plerumque binato-stipulares, sed sparsi quo- 
que inveniuntur.  Petioli tomentosi, glandulosi, aculeisque minimis rectis muniti, 
Stipule lineares, glanduloso-ciliate, ez floribus propiores latiores, et demum foliis de- 
- ficientibus in bracteas ellipticas acuminatas immutate. Foliola 5 rarius 7, par superius et 
. foliolum impar ceteris majora, elliptica, vel potius in meis.speciminibus oblongo-ellip- 
tica, duplicato-serrata, utrinque hirsuta, mollissima, subtus precipue marginem ver- 
sus glandulosa. Pedunculi 1—3, setis debilibus plerumque armati, interdum toti gla- 
bri, bracteas longitudine subequantes. Receptaculum ellipticum, nunc setis aliquot 
.. fortioribus quam qua in pedunculo munitum, nune glaberrimum. Calycis foliola suh- 
pinnata, triangulari-lanceolata, petala vix æquantia, glandulosa, fructüs erecta. 
Flores concavi ; petala alba, maculis sanguineis gemmæ persistentibus, Styli inclusi, 
stigmatibus convexis, Fructus magnus, subglobosus, ruber, 
Found by Mr. Winch in hedges in Durham and Northumber- 
land. Engl. Bot. Banks of the Dee, and on the side of Loch 
Tay, Mr. G. Anderson. Friars Wood, near Analeion a odi 
If I were not fortified by the authority of Sir J. E. Smith and of 
Mr. Borrer, I should hardly venture to describe as a distinct spe- 
ciés a plant so nearly approaching to some varieties of R. tomen- 
tosa. The calyx-leafits, indeed, though always in some. degree 
pinnate, are never, as far as I have observed, completely fur- 
nished with offsets on each division as they are in that plant. In 
this respect it varies exceedingly, approaching however nearer to 
the compound calyx of R. tomentosa than to the simple one of 
 R. villosa. On this character, such as it is, the specific distinc- 
tion must principally rest; for the shape of the receptacle and 
leaflets, though sufficiently distinct in some specimens, still va- 
ries so much in this tribe of Roses that I dare not place much 
reliance on it. Still less can I depend on the greenness and 
harshness of the pubescence, the characters by which this Rose is 
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