Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 207 
_ ribus propiores foliis deficientibus in bracteas immutatæ, quarum forma incerta. Fo- ` 
liola 5 vel 7, par superius et foliolum impar ceteris majora, elliptica, suprà hirta, subtus 
pilis glandulisque odoriferis vestita, serraturis serrulatis glanduliferisque, | Pedun- 
culi 1\—11, setis inæqualibus obsiti, quarum pauce interdum faciem aculeorum æmu- 
"lent. Receptaculum primitivum obovatum, cetera plerumque elliptica, omnia fusca, 
setis sparsis munita; sete longiores fortioresque aculeos simulantes receptaculi ad basin 
inveniuntur. Galyció foliola triangulari-ovata, longius acuminata, pinnata; pinne 
. lineari-lanceolate, glanduloso-dentatæ. Flores concavi; petala rubella. Styli in- 
clusi; stigmata convexa, villosa. Fructus primitivus obovatus, ceteri obovati vel 
elliptici, omnes setis fortibus basi armati, rubri, demum maturitate sanguinei, 
In bushy places on a dry soil in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. Some- 
times very abundant on the chalky banks in those counties. _ 
B. is a variety in which the larger aculei are falcate, not unci- 
nate; and which seems to want the character arising from 
the increased magnitude of the setæ at the base of the ger- 
men. ‘This may possibly be a distinct species. 
The only Rose of our country which can be confounded with 
this is R. micrantha; and occasionally, when the latter grows in 
exposed situations, or when R. Eglanteria is found (which is rarely 
the case) in moist hedges, the eye will not immediately distinguish 
them. In general, however, R. Eglanteria is a stiff, compact, up- 
right bush ; R. micrantha, a loose straggling briar. In all cases the 
central flower of the cyme, the one which is first expanded, is 
followed by an obovate or pyriform fruit in the former species ; 
while in the latter the fruit is at most only elliptical, and almost 
always terminating in something of a neck,—a distinction first 
pointed out in Engl. Bot., and well marked in the figures of the 
two plants. Another equally constant character is derived from 
the aculei, which in R. micrantha are in general merely binato- 
stipulary, with a few others scattered without order on the branches 
—all aga of a size, and never intermixed with a multitude of 
smaller 
