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each branch, rather short, and not always rising above the brac- 

 teas, more or less plentifully beset with slender, unequal, glan- 

 dular bristles, but not downy. Tube of the calyx unequally 

 globose and rather depressed, bespi'inklcd with strong glandular 

 bristles, becoming a large, irregularly globose, or slightly pear- 

 shaped, prickly/jvai, purplish when half grown, but finally scar- 

 let. The segments of the calyx are always, as far as I have seen, 

 in some degree compound, though far less copiously pinnate than 

 in R. tomentosa ; they are densely prickly and glandular at the 

 back, downy in the upper part, and stand nearly upright on the 

 fruit, which they greatly exceed in length. Petals of a fine, 

 rather deep, and mostly uniform red, or pink colour. 



The rounded soft and hoary leajlets, and large globular, by no 

 means elliptical, or ovaXe, fruit, crowned by the very long, per- 

 manent, tawny divisions of the calyx, characterize this species, 

 though one of the latter is never free from an accessory leaflet 

 or two. The perfectly straight radical shoots are said by Mr. 

 Lindley and Mr. Sabine to afford a permanent mark of distinc- 

 tion between this and the following species. I think with Mr. 

 Woods that this is the R. villosa of the Linnaean herbarium, and 

 the specimen there preserved proves, by an inscription at the back, 

 which escaped his notice, to be what Osbeck gathered in Suder- 

 mannia. Linnaeus in his Sp. PI. no doubt confounded this plant 

 with the Great Apple-bearing Rose of the gardens, of which 1 have 

 already spoken under ??. 6, R. gracilis. Ray might originally 

 confound our present villosa with that, which should in future be 

 called pomifera. So might Haller under his n. 1 1 05, and so un- 

 questionably did Hudson and Lightfoot under their villosa. I have 

 done the same in Fl. Brit., and am now happy to correct my 

 error, hoping that some botanist will ascertain the native coun- 

 try of R. pomifera, and whether it grows near Basil, or Mont- 

 pellier, as John Bauhin records ; though in his mention of the 

 latter station, near the famous hortus Dei, he describes the fruit 

 as only the size of a hazel-nut, while his figure is certainly the 

 pomifera. R. villosa, Fl. Dan. t. 1458, is evidently pomifera, 

 though the leaflets are rather too acute. Lightfoot's description, 

 to which Mr. Woods adverts, Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 199, is mani- 

 festly copied from Haller, see his n. 1 1 05 ; and only shows that 

 the latter, as well possibly as Lightfoot himself, had R. pomifera 

 in contemplation. I have been induced by Mr. Woods's per- 

 suasion to remove the synonym of Dillenius quoted in Fl. Br. 

 and Ejigl. Bot., R. sylvestris folio molliter hirsuto,fructu rotundo 

 glabra, calyce et pediculo hispiclis, Raii Syn. 478, from the pre- 

 sent species to R. Sherardi hereafter described. 



Of the two varieties of R. villosa above indicated, /3 is large and 

 luxuriant, apparently owing to richness of soil ; while y on the 

 contrary seems diminished, by its mountain station, to a size less 

 luxuriant than the specimen figured in Engl. Bot. ^2459, which 



