234 Mr. Woops on the British Species of Rosa. 
The distinct, smooth, lengthened column of styles is alone suf- 
ficient to distinguish it from every British Rose except R. systyla, 
froin which it may be known by its decumbent shoots and ex- 
panded flowers; the leaflets also are flatter, the serratures wider 
apart, and the whole plant of a grayer colour. When once known, 
their general appearance is so different that it is impossible to 
confound them. Among the exotics, R. sempervirens comes near 
to it in habit, while in essential character it is easily separated by 
its shining leaves and villous styles. R. sempervirens of Roth, Fl, 
Germ. i. 218. ii. 556; R. umbellata of Gmelin, Fl. Bad. Als. ii. 4253 
Lam. et Dec. FL. Fr. vi. 532, appears to me a very different spe- 
cies: it is not an evergreen ; the fruit is globose or nearly so, and 
the leaves are doubly serrated and glandular beneath. Gmelin lc, 
remarks that it is allied to R. Eglanteria. It is perhaps as near 
to R. Borreri as to any British Rose; but it is scarcel y possible 
_ to conceive how this could have been mistaken for £. 246 of the 
Hortus Elthamensis, the only plate referred to by Linnæus, and 
clearly pointing out his plant. | 
R. semperflorens is another plant of this family, and, unless the 
distinct styles of these Roses should make it necessary to separate 
them, R. indica. It will also contain R. moschata, R. multiflora, 
and R. sinica. Some Roses from China, of which specimens exist 
in the Banksian Herbarium, will probably form another family 
allied to this. 
The hip of this species has a finer flavour than that of us 
other British Rose ; that of R.s ystyla does not much differ in this 
respect, 
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