198 MR. J. HOGG ON THE llOSA RUBELLA OF WINCH. 



Dr. Horsfield, and recently presented to the Linnean Society "by 

 the East India Company, has been, within the past few weeks, 

 poisoned, mounted, and arranged. 



The species already described by Messrs. Bennett and Brown in 

 the ' Plantse Javanicse Eariores,' and also to a considerable extent 

 those of Professor Miquel in the ' Flora Indise Batavse,' have been 

 written up with their respective references. A number of the spe- 

 cimens have been labelled by Miquel himself. The collection is, 

 at present, placed in a cabinet immediately adjoining that con- 

 taining the Wallichian Herbarium, to which it may be regarded 

 as supplementary. 



On the Bosa rubella of "Winch. By John Hogg, Esq., F.E.S., 



E.L.S. 



[Kead Dec. 1st, 1859.] 



About the summer of 1823, I discovered in a hedge on the south 

 of the lane leading from Carlton to Norton, in the county of 

 Durham, a rose which had so much of the general appearance of 

 Mosa spinosissima that I then considered it to be a variety of that 

 species, — only that it had pink flowers ; I therefore named it, in my 

 short ' Catalogue of Plants' which was published a few years after- 

 wards in Brewster's ' History of Stockton,' as " Mosa spinosissima, 

 var. flore rubra. ^' Many plants of that species were also growing 

 near the same spot. Some years afterwards, at the request of Mr. 

 Winch, I again made search for that rose, and after a lapse of 

 some two or three years I rediscovered the plant in blossom, having 

 pink flowers ; I sent a specimen to Mr. Winch, and he informed 

 me that it was Itosa rubella. 



Two years ago the late Mr. Storey, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, an 

 able botanist, who was engaged in making a more accurate list of 

 the plants indigenous in the counties of Durham and Northumber- 

 land, asked me to forward him specimens both in flower and in 

 fruit (in the autumn). In 1857 and 1858 1 duly investigated that 

 part of the lane where I remembered that the plant from which I 

 sent Mr. Winch the specimen was growing, but I only found what 

 I thought was the same plant, although not in flower, or in fruit, 

 in either of those years. 



In June, however, of this year I was extremely pleased to 

 behold one of the same plants in blossom, bearing two flowers of 

 a lovely blush, or pink colour, of which the dried specimen I now 



