S8G ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



In hedges and thickets. 



Near Kingston -upon-Thames. Sherarcl. Near Tunbridge Wells, 

 and Down, in Kent. Mr. Woods. In Cambridgeshire. Rev. J. 

 Holme. Anglesea. Rev. H. Davies. 



Shrub. June, July. 



A stronger plant than the last, with stout round branches. Prickles 

 chiefly in couples under the leaves and younger branches, hooked, 

 conical, tapering gradually from a very broad base, all in some 

 degree compressed laterally, but particularly so on the young 

 vigorous shoots. Leaflets 5 or 7, elliptical and rather broad, 

 but more or less acute at each end ; hoary soft and downy on 

 both sides ; doubly serrated. Footstalks downy, prickly, slightly 

 glandular. Stlpuhis downy, acute, fringed with glands. Flower- 

 stalks from 1 to 8 or 9, the more numerous the shorter, beset 

 with glandular bristles, mostly bracteated with the uppermost 

 leafless stipulas, which are ovate-lanceolate, acute, glandular and 

 downy. Tube of the calyx large, tumid, globose, abrupt, often 

 slightly depressed, sometimes a little elongated at the base ; va- 

 riously besprinkled with bristles, but sometimes almost naked, 

 as Sherard and the late Mr. H. Davies observed. In a half-ripe 

 state its surface is corrugated, from the projection of the nume- 

 rous seeds, and has a purplish-olive hue. It then much resem- 

 bles a half-grown Bullace Plum. I have not seen the ripe hip, 

 nor thejloivers. The segments of the limb of the calyx are ex- 

 panded, tawny, very rough with bristles or stalked glands, and 

 copiously pinnate in the manner of R. tomentosa. The whole 

 plant, except the prickles and calyx, bears more resemblance to 

 villosa than tomentosa, and is particularly remarkable for its large 

 globular half-ripe /r?u^ Whether it may be entitled to rank as 

 a species, must be determined by future inquiries, as we are 

 still but learners in the specific characters of this genus. 



11. R. ruhigmosa. Sweet Briar, or Eglantine. 



Fruit obovate, bristly towards the base. Calyx pinnate. 



Prickles hooked, compressed ; with smaller straighter 



ones interspersed. Leaflets elliptical, doubly serrated, 



hairy ; clothed beneath with rusty-coloured glands. 

 R, rubiginosa. Linn. Mant. 2. 564. Willd. Sp. PI. v.2.\073. Fl. 



Br. 540.- Engl. Bot. v.\4.t.99l. Comp. 78. Hook. Lond. t.UQ. 



Scot. 157 a. With. 466. Hull. 111. Jacq. Auslr. t. 50. Ehrh. 



Arb. 75. Lindl. Ros. 86 a. 

 R. ^lanteria. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1.401? Huds. 218. Woods Tr. of 



L. Soc. V. 12. 206. Herm. Ros. 17. Afzel. Ros. Suec. tent. 1. 8. 



Sims 8^ Kon. Ann. u. 2. 213. 

 R. suavifolia. Light/. 262. Fl. Dan. t. 870. 

 R, n. 11 03. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 39. 

 R. foliis subtus rubiginosis et odoratis. Hall. Enum. 350, excluding 



the var, y. which is R. tomentosa. 



