392 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



author says the leaves are doubly serrated. For the same 

 reason I have referred to the canina of Curtis, whose figure 

 sufficiently well represents our plant, the shjles perhaps ex- 

 cepted. 



16. R. hractescens, Bracteated Downy Rose. 



Fruit globose, smooth. Flower-stalks aggregate, occa- 

 sionally somewhat hairy. Calyx pinnate, with entire 

 leaflets. Prickles aggregate, hooked. Leaflets ovate, 

 almost simply serrated ; downy beneath. Bracteas rising 

 much above the fruit. 



R. bractescens. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 21 6. 



In hedges and thickets. 



About Ulverston, Lancashire, and Ambleside, Westmoreland. 

 Mr. Woods. 



Shrub. June, July. 



A bush 6 or 7 feet high, with diffuse branches. Prickles hooked, 

 each from a broad base, in pairs under each leaf and young 

 branch, and often accompanied by a few smaller ones, making 

 a kind of whorl, but there are scarcely any solitary scattered 

 prickles in other places. Leajlets large, elliptic-ovate, acute } 

 for the most part simply, but here and there doubly, serrated ; 

 downy or finely hairy on both sides, especially beneath, where 

 the ribs are always very hairy, and the mid-rib often prickly. 

 Footstalks downy, bearing several hooked prickles, with now 

 and then a glandular bristle. Stipulas broad ; downy exter- 

 nally ; entire towards the base ; serrated upwards, and acutely 

 pointed ; several of the upper ones greatly dilated, their leaves 

 diminished, and more or less incomplete ; the uppermost of all 

 being changed to very large, concave, ovate, pointed, entire 

 bracteas, overtopping the flowers. Flower-stalks 2, 3, or 4, 

 rarely solitary, for the most part naked, sometimes beset with a 

 few weak scattered hairs, or bristles. Tube of the calyx globu- 

 lar, smooth ; segments of the limb smooth at the back, pinnate 

 with several lanceolate, entire, slightly bristly or glandular, 

 leaflets. Petals flesh-coloured. Styles a little prominent, very 

 nairy. Stigmas forming a prominent cone, intermixed with 

 hairs. 



Several good botanists have referred this species to i?. canina, 

 from which it apparently differs in many particulars. At least 

 I do not think myself authorized to abolish it, having never 

 seen the plant alive, nor have I any other information than 

 what is afforded by the description, and three dried specimens, 

 of Mr. Woods. The following is perhaps more doubtful, but 

 for the same reasons 1 leave it for future inquiry. 



