The Scottish Naturalist. 329 



TWO VARIETIES OF ROSES NEW TO SCOTLAND. 

 BY N. J. SCHEUTZ. 



IX the March number of the Journal of Botany for 1888 

 (pp. 67-68) is a paper, in Latin, by N. J. Scheutz, entitled "De 

 duabus Rosis Britannicis. As these were both gathered in 

 Scotland by the Rev. E. F. Linton, we extract from the paper the 

 descriptions and notes, translating the latter. 



" R. mollis Sm. var. glabrata Fries {Novitiat Fl. Suecicce, 

 Ed. 2, p. 151), Foliolis utrinque glabris vel glabrescentibus, subtus 

 glanduloso-pinictatis vel rarius fere eglandidosis. 



Hab. Strome Ferry, Ross. 



" The Scotch specimens agree with the Swedish. At first, 

 indeed, one might believe that the form gathered in Scotland be- 

 longed to It. tomentosa ; but the short, erecto-patent branches, the 

 form and serrature of the leaflets, the hispid early ripe fruits, and 

 ascending, persistent sepals are quite like those of R. mollis, of 

 which it is most certainly the form glabrata- A similar form 

 gathered in Northern England, and sent to Crepin under the 

 name, R. tomentosa, is mentioned by him in his Prim. Monogr. 

 Rosa rum, fasc. vj., p. 108. 



" R. COrii#0lia Fr. var. Lintoni Scheutz; foliolis pubescent ibvs, 



subtus plus minusve glandulosis, duplicato-serratis dentibus cum 1-3 



dentictdis glandulosis ; peduncidis brevibus nudis ; recepAa cutis 



fructiferis subglobosis eglandulosis; sejxrfi* post anthesin erecto-pa- 



tentibus persistentibus, dorso eglandulosis. 



Hab. xAd. flumen prope Braemar, Aberdeen. 



" A remarkable form by the leaflets, glandular beneath, tending 

 to tomentetta, to which I would have referred it had the sepals 

 been reflexed and deciduous. If one follows the arrangement 

 given by J. G. Baker in his ' Monograph of British Roses,' this 

 variety may be referred to the series Subrubiginosce, and placed 

 under jR. canina, between the varieties Borreri (Woods) and 

 Bakeri (Desegl.). It seems to come nearest var. Balceri, which 

 Crepin, in ' Primitiae Monogr. Rosamm? fasc. vj, p. 58, considers 

 a variety of R. coriifolia. Among the Scandinavian roses is a 

 form which is related to the var. Lintoni, but different in form and 

 in some of its characters ; this has been called R. gothica Win slow 

 (Bot. Notis., 1879, Hb. Ros. Scand. 29). 



" I believe it not irrelevant to warn most of my readers that the 



