ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. S89 



prickles thereabouts are not so long as in ruhiginosa ; segments 

 of the limb not very much pinnate, falling off as Xh^ fruit ripens. 

 The latter is scarlet, sometimes quite smooth, retaining its 

 oval form, with a short neck, and commonly much smaller than 

 the hips of ruhiginosa. 

 Mr. Lindley, partly as it seems at the persuasion of Mr. Lyell, 

 makes this a variety of the last ; but Mr. Borrer, Mr. Sabine 

 and Mr. Woods agree with me in keeping it distinct. Till we 

 have more experience in the specific characters of this genus, 

 as no one can be competent, in difficult cases, to come to an ab- 

 solute conclusion, it is safer to discriminate than to confound. 



13. R. Borreri. Downy-stalked Dog Rose. 



Fruit elliptical, smooib. Flower-stalks aggregate, hairy, 

 Calyx copiously, often doubly, pinnate, deciduous. 

 Prickles hooked. Leaflets ovate, doubly serrated, hairy, 

 without glands. 



R. Borreri. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 210. Winch Geogr. Dis- 

 trib. 45. 



R. dumetorum. Engl. Bot. v. 36. t. 2579 j but not, it seems, of 

 Persoon. 



R. rubiginosa 3". Lindl. Ros. 88. 



/3 R. rubiginosa inodora. Hook. Lond. t. 117. 



In hedges and thickets. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stem from fi to 10 feet high, round, firm, with numerous, spread- 

 ing, smooth, leafy branches. Prickles solitary or in pairs under 

 the branches and leaves, strongly hooked and deflexed, each 

 with a large oblong base. Footstalks downy. Leaflets mostly 

 7, broadly ovate, acute, doubly serrated, deep green, shining, 

 minutely hairy, flat ; the under side rather paler, most hairy 

 about the ribs, destitute of glands, as well as of scent. Stipulas 

 linear, pointed, glandular at the edges, but not at the back ; 

 the uppermost changed to ovate, pointed, slightly hairy bracteas, 

 fringed with stalked glands. Flower-stalks aggregate, some- 

 times numerous, seldom solitary, mostly downy or bristly, 

 rarelv quite naked. Tube of the calyx elliptical, green or 

 brownish, smooth and naked j segments of the Zimfc rather short, 

 spreading, deciduous, distantly fringed with stalked glands; 

 two of them very copiously jiinnate ; with crowded, broad, 

 partly compound, acute, smooth subdivisions. Petals flesh- 

 coloured, or light red, rather small. Fniit deep scarlet, occa- 

 sionally almost globular, with a short neck ; sometimes rather 



obovate. . ,. r. • c 



Dr. Panzer of Nuremberg has sent this species for R. septum ot 



Rau, Etium. Rosar. 90, which Mr. Lindley considers as brae- 



tescens of Woods, and a variety of canina. ■ 

 R. Borreri has been found near Edinburgh, by the very excellent 



