S82 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



acute marginal leaflets, and clothed, as well ns fringed, like 

 those leaflets, with numerous short bristles, or stalked glands. 

 Petals large, expanded, of a fine red. R\\)e fruit, sent by Mr. 

 Hailstone, ovate, bright scarlet, bearing a few glandular bristles, 

 especially at the base, and crowned with the long, upright, 

 glandular, tawny segments of the calyx. 

 R. Sabbn, honoured with the name of a most indefatigable and in- 

 telligent observer and cultivator of the whole genus, is ])erhaps 

 the finest British species, though hitherto overlooked. It con- 

 cludes the list of those which bear glandular bristles on the stem, 

 and is distinguished from all the rest by the pinnate, or com- 

 pound, segments of its calyx. 



** Branches "doithozit bristles. Pricldcs nearly straight. 



8. R. vUlosa. Soft-leaved Round -fruited Rose. 



Fruit globose, somewhat depressed, partly bristly. Calyx 

 slightly compound. Prickles nearly straight. Leaflets 

 rounded, bluntish, all over downy. 



R. villosa. Linn. Sp. PL 704 ? Fl. Sitec. ed. 2. 4G3. Herb. Lbm. 7i.3. 

 Willd. V. 2. 1 069 ? Woods Tr. of L. Sac. vA2.\ 89. Fl. Br. .538. (S. 



R. mollis. Engl. Dot. u.3.5. /. 2459. Rtes's Cijd. v. 30. ?z. 21. 

 Comp. 78. IVincli. Geogr. Distrib. 42. 



R. tomentosa /3. LindL. Ros.77. Hook. Scot. I.'iG. 



/3. R. heterophylla. JVoods. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 195. 



y. R. pulchella. Woods. Ibid. 190. 



In bushy, rather mountainous, situations, in Wales, Scotland, and 

 the north of England. 



Between Edinburgh and Ravelston wood, gathered in 1 782. Found 

 also by Mr. G. Jackson in Scotland ; by the Rev. Hugh Davies 

 in Anglesea; by Mr. Woods in Yorkshire and Cumberland; and 

 by Mr. Winch in Northumberland. 



jS near Edinburgh. Mr. Borrer. 



y near Ingleton, Yorkshire. Mr. Woods. 



Stem about G feet high, often much less, with scattered bi-own 

 prickly branches, rather glaucous when young, but neither 

 bristly nor hairy. Prickles scattered, pale, slender, nearly 

 straight. Leaflets 5 or 7, more or less rounded and obtuse, 

 often obovate, with double acute glandular scrratures ; both 

 surfaces soft and downy, with a hoary aspect ; the under palest, 

 wrinkled, with prominent veins. Footstalks downy, bristly and 

 glandular, with several slightly curved prickles. Stipulas ob- 

 long, pointed, very downy, thickly fringed with minute, almost 

 sessile glands ; the upper pair or two often destitute of leaves, 

 and each pair united into a broad, ovate, acute, woolly braclea, 

 with a strong mid-rib. Flower-sfnlks 1 or 2 at the summit of 



