994 | Mv. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
niti. Stipulæ lineares, serratæ, glabræ, ese floribus propiores latiores, et demum fo- 
liis deficientibus in bracteas ellipticas acuminatas immutate. Foliola 7, par superius 
et foliolum impar ceteris majora, anguste elliptica, carinata, acumine parvo torto, ju- 
niora lucescentia quasi fucata, glaberrima; serraturze acuminate, inæquales, sed nun- 
quam serie duplicé. Pedunculi glaberrimi, in ramulis solitarii vel binati rarius terna- 
ti, in sureulis plerumque quaterni. Receptaculum ellipticum, fuscum, glabrum. Ca- 
lycis foliola triangulari-ovata, glabra ; pinnæ lineari-lanceolatæ, hic illie glanduloso- 
incise. Flores plerumque rubescentes, rarius albi, gemma flore expanso aliquantu- 
lum rubrior. Styli inclusi, — — Ltée Dur ellipticus, ay 
nitidus, coccineus. 
Common in hedges and -bushy places. 
Under this name our early botanists seem to have included 
(besides the present species) R. sarmentacea, R. Borreri, R. dume- 
torum, R. collina, R. surculosa, and R.systyla of this essay. After 
all these reductions it must still be considered as a very variable 
Rose. I will attempt to enumerate the principal differences of 
appearance to which it is v ed | | 
B. cerea. The young: leaves are uiis x a Ex substance, 
and till rubbed are of a glaucous green entirely without 
gloss. Root-shoots are more freely produced in this variety 
than in #, and I have sometimes met with as many as eight 
flowers in a cyme. "The plant is eight or ten, and sometimes 
even fifteen, feet high ; the leaflets are broader, and the little 
point at the end is alwaysa little twisted ; a character which 
may be observed in a slight degree in «, but is more conspi- 
cuous here. "This is a very beautiful Rose, and more com- 
= mon than the preceding variety, from which I have drawn 
= my description, because R. canina has been almost always 
described with shining leaves. 
These two varieties form the chief subdivisions of the spe- 
cies, and are marked by a. difference of habit as well as co- 
lour; 
