ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. S85 



limb, and one side of a third, copiously pinnate, with long, leafy, 

 acute, toothed and glandular leaflets, as abundant as in any spe- 

 cies whatever. Petals light red, white in their lower half ; some- 

 times white blotched with red. Fruit scarlet, generally bristly, 

 broadly elliptical, retaining the limb of the calyx, either spreading 

 or reflexed, till quite ripe, when the latter usually falls off. 



j3 appears at first sight a very distinct species, whose leaves are 

 greener, and more harsh, nearly smooth except the ribs, which 

 are hairy. Such at least is my Suffolk plant, first noticed in 

 company with Sir T. Galium and Mr. Crowe, the calyx-tube of 

 which is remarkably slender. This I had in view in tlie descrip- 

 tion of Engl. Bot., though the figure was drawn from a plant of 

 Mr. Winch's, then considered the same. The latter has a rounder 

 calyx-tube, and the leajlets, except their ribs, are quite smooth. 

 Another specimen from this gentleman precisely accords with 

 those from Buryj while Mr. Woods describes those he received 

 from Mr. VVinch as "hoary with a velvety down, and exceed- 

 ingly soft on both sides ; perhaps even more so than is usual in 

 any other species." So I find them, and these therefore can 

 only belong to R. tomentosa. They prove how liable its pubes- 

 cence is to vary. 



R. tomentosa was originally detected in the neighbourhood of Nor- 

 wich about 45 years ago, and first published in Fl. Brit, under 

 that name, which Mr. Lindley has very properly retained, in 

 spite of the doubtful claim of a far less applicable one, of Ger- 

 man origin, mollissima. John Bauhin's synonym, though of late 

 neglected, cannot be disputed, 



Mr. Woods enumerates 1.5 varieties, or different appearances, of 

 this species, two of which I venture to refer to the following. 

 To the rest I could add several, for I have seen this plant, on 

 removal to a rich and damp garden, assume so rank and prickly 

 a habit, as to be scarcely recognised, and even in its various 

 wild situations the pubescence varies greatly. Still I find no 

 considerable alteration in the divisions of the calyx, nor in the 

 elliptical shape of its tube. 



*** Branches ivithoul bristles. Prickles hooJced^ compressed. 

 Styles distinct. 



10. R. S'herardi. Round-headed Rose. 



Fruit globular, abrupt, somewhat bristly. Calyx copiously 

 pinnate. Prickles conical, hooked, compressed. Leaf- 

 lets elliptical, acute, downy on both sides. 



R. Sherardi. Davies Welsh Botanol. 49. 



R. tomentosa s and rj. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 201. 



R. sylvestris folio moUit^r hirsuto, fructu rotundo glabro, calyce et 



pediculo hispidis. Dill, in Rail Syn. 478. 

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