200 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
dence between my varieties and the varieties or species of pre- 
ceding authors. 
I have made several attempts to form such an arrangement of 
the varieties of this Rose as might keep together those plants 
whose natural character would point out the probability of their 
constituting distinct species, and separate those whose habit 
seemed to announce important differences. "This attempt has 
failed ; but I believe in the following list the order adopted is not 
far from a natural series. If the botanist who knows the species 
be able to assign to the specimens he collects their place among 
these varieties, my object will be attained. 
I have here been obliged to use the word hirsutus rather than 
setosus to the arms of the peduncle and receptacle, in order to in- 
clude the variety o, which has a downy peduncle without either 
glands or sete, while yet it is characterized by a receptacle 
smoother than the peduncle. 
B. differs from « only in having the upper pagina of the leaf en- 
! tirely smooth. Ambleside, Westmoreland. 
y. Leaves smooth on both sides. By the road on the north side 
of Loch Tay, Mr. W. Borrer. 
à. has a rounder leaflet than æ, with scattered Miu the upper 
surface, and scattered hairs and glands on the under; the 
nerves on the underside of the leaf are thickly clothed with 
hairs somewhat spreading; petals white. ‘The earliest flow- 
ers in this variety frequently have the leafits of the calyx 
entirely simple, nearly linear, and expanded at the end: 
the latter peculiarity, where it exists in a remarkable degree, 
though pointed out in English Botany as a character of the 
R. mollis of that work, appears to me a sure indication of an 
unnatural or imperfect state " inflorescence. Dunkeld, 
"as W. Borrer. — 
s. Fruit 
