206 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
it, it would not have obtained a place by itself: its nearest aff- 
nity is probably R. tomentosa, from which however the peculi- 
arities above remarked separate it widely. The petiole and the 
midrib of the leaflets are usually of a reddish or purplish hue; and 
in these circumstances, and perhaps also in habit, it is somewhat 
allied to the R. rubrifolia of Villars. That Rose, however, claims 
a nearer affinity with R. cesta; but I should suppose, from the 
descriptions I have met with, that the aculei are straighter and 
the serratures more simple than in that species. 
This Rose concludes the account of the British Roses of this 
family, consisting of six species; viz. R. villosa, R. heterophylla, 
R. scabriuscula, R. pulchella, R. tomentosa, and R. nuda: itis cha- 
racterized by the want of setæ on the stems; the stipulæ chan- 
ging more or less into bracteæ ; and by aculei nearly straight, or 
at least not uncinate. | : 
14. Rosa-ÉGLANTERIA. => - i: 
R. fructibus obovatis, aculeis inæqualibus majoribus uncinatis, 
- foliolis hirsutis subtus glandulosis du plicato-serratis. 
R. Eglanteria. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 491. Hudson, 218. Encycl. Métho- 
dique, 286. | | 
R. rubiginosa. Mant. ii. 564. Willd. ii. 1073. Flora Br. ii. 540. 
Engl. Bot. iv. t. 091. Lam. et Dec. Fl. Fr. iv. 445. Roth 
Fl. Germ. i. 218. & ii. 558. Jacq. Fl. Aust. i. 31. t. 50. 
R. suavifolia. FL. Dan. t. 870? 
R. sylvestris odora. — Raii Synops. 454. 
Frutex 4—7-pedalis. Rami suberecti, virides, juniores fuscescentes, aculeati; aculei 
valde inæquales, majores uncinati, minores rectiores, minimi rectissimi, sed nun- 
quam ut credo in setas immutati; aculei majores interdum binato-sti pulares, ceteri sem- 
per sine ordine sparsi, Petioli tomentosi, glandulosi, aculeis falcatis instructi: defi- 
ciunt sete, Stipulæ lineares, glandulis tenerrime serratæ, vel potius ciliatæ, eæ flo- 
ribus 
