ICOSANDllIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. S81 



viifera major of Parkinson's Parad. 418. f. 4 1 9./. 7, and of Rav's 

 Synopsis, ed. 2. 297. ed- 3. 455. It is clearly Parkinson's plant, 

 and nobody could doubt its being that of Ray, who describes it 

 plentiful in the mountainous parts of Yorkshire and Westmore- 

 land. This great botanist however does not quote Caspar Bau- 

 hin, nor J. Bauhin's very expressive figure ; and all English bo- 

 tanists of the present day declare that this garden Apple Rose, 

 characterized by its long elliptical leaflets, and very large, droop- 

 ing, bristly fruit, scarlet at first, afterwards blackish, crowned 

 with the narrow, simple, involute calyx, is not found wild in 

 England. I shall speak of Ray's plant hereafter. Mr. Sowerby, 

 or Mr. Robson, may well be excused for annexing the fruit of 

 either of these to the gracilis, considering how little these plants 

 were then known, and indeed how very nearly they all are re- 

 lated. 



7. R. Sabini. Sabinian Bristly Rose. 



Flower-stalks somewhat aggregate, bristly, often bracteated. 

 Branches, globular fruit, and pinnate calyx bristly. 

 Prickles scattered, straightish. Leaflets doubly serrated, 

 nearly smooth, with hairy ribs. 



R. Sabini. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v, 1 2. 1 88. LindL Ros. 59, exd. the 

 variety. 



/3 R. involuta. Winch Geogr. Distrib. 4 1 ; according to Mr. Sabine. 



In mountainous thickets in the North. 



In Scotland. Mr. Jackson. Near Dunkeld. Mr. Borrer. Near 

 Havveswater, Cumberland. Mr. Woods. (3 In Heaton Dene, be- 

 low Benton bridge, Northumberland, rare. Mr. IVinch. One 

 mile from Upper Leatham, towards Gisborough, Yorkshire. 

 Mr. S. Hailstone. 



Shrub. July. 



Stem from 5 to 8 feet high. Brandies brown, beset in their 

 lower part with scattered, pale, nearly straight prickles, each 

 suddenly springing from an oblong base ; and in the upper 

 with much smaller purplish prickles, often hardly distinguishable 

 from the glandular bristles which accompany them. Footstalks 

 downy, glandular, and copiously prickly. Leaflets 5 or 7, 

 broadly elliptical, often rounded and blunt, with sharp double 

 glandular serratures ; the upper surface green, smooth, or slightly 

 hairy, especially the mid-rib ; under rather paler and more hairy 

 about the ribs and veins. Stipulas wedge-shaped, keeled, finely 

 glandular at the edges, with sharp, spreading, lanceolate points. 

 Flower-stalks 1 or 2, sometimes 3, beset with unequal glandular 

 bristles, as is likewise the globular tube of the calyx, the latter 

 being rarely destitute of them. Segments of the calyx tapering, 

 pinnate with a greater or less number of lanceolate, or linear. 



