228 ^ Mr. Woons:on the British Species of Rosa. 
larating effects of it. Thé Russians of the Volga prepare a spirit 
from the flowers; they likewise preserve them with sugar and ho- 
ney. The leaves dried and infused in boiling water have been re- 
commended as a substitute for tea. — 
24. Rosa sURCULOSA. à; 
R. stylis distinctis, aculeis caulinis petiolinisque uncinatis, folio- 
lis planis simpliciter serratis glabris. uH 
Frutex octo-pedalis, laxus, habità Rosam caninam vel potius R. Borreri inter et R. arvensem 
referens, Rami diffusi, atro-purpurei vel intense fusci, juniores glaucescentes, nune 
copiose aculeati nunc fere inermes; aculei fortissimi, uncinati, nunc binato-stipu- 
lares, nunc solitarii, sparsi. — Petioli supra tantum sparse pilosi, alioquin glabri, acu- 
leis fortibus uncinatis muniti. Séipulæ spatulatæ vel lineares, nunc serratæ, nunc 
basi glanduloso-ciliatze, nunc nisi apicem versus integerrimz, glabra, interdum mar- 
gine pilose, ez floribus propiores latiores et demum foliis deficientibus in bracteas 
ellipticas, acuminatas, immutat, — Foliola 7, par superius et foliolum impar ceteris 
- : . 
majora, acie supraque nervo tantum pilis raris instructa, elliptica, vel subrotunda, acu- 
minata, impar basi cordatüm vel ovatum, serrata, subtus glabra, obscura, juniora pur- 
purascentia, Pedünculi 1—24, hie illic setis. sparsis, tenerrimis, pilisve muniti. 
Receptaculum. ovatum, fuscum, glabrum, disco convexo. Calycis foliola triangulari- 
elliptica, acuta fere usque ad basin divisa, pinnis lanceolatis vel lineari-lanceolatis, 
nervosis, integerrimis. Flores rubescentes, Styli subporrecti, villosi ; stigmata in 
globulum congesta. Fructus late ellipticus, ruber, 
About Albourne, Henfield, West Grinstead, and elsewhere in 
Sussex.. Mr. Borrer. Road-side between Hayes and Bromley 
in Kent. ! Ge 
B. Surculi not so strong, redder; bush more compact ; disk of 
the receptacle flat. Near Stoke Newington. Only one 
bush of this Rose has ever been observed ; but the habit of 
the plant is very remarkable, and I had noticed it several 
years before I began to pay any particular attention to this 
genus, i EA | 
The only British species which can be mistaken for R. surculosa 
are 
