ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 399 



The eminently beautiful Rose, suspected by Mr. Sabine to be a 

 double blush-coloured variety oiarvensis, called in the Nurseries 

 round London the " Double Hip Rose/' and mentioned by 

 Mr. Woods and Mr, Lindley, has not only a very different aspect, 

 but likewise different characters, approaching R. gnllica and its 

 allies, vi^ith vi'hich it nearly agrees in magnitude. The branches 

 are really furnished, like those species, with glandular bristles, 

 as in my first section, and the subdivisions of the calyx bear 

 long, tfvwny, marginal hairs. The styles I have not been able 

 to examine, but Mr. Lindley says they are not united, a most 

 essential distinction ! I cannot but concur with him in think- 

 ing this plant the offspring of some of the common garden 

 Roses, whether by the pollen of jR. arvensis, which it approaches 

 rather in general external similitude than in any one character, 

 1 greatly doubt. Mr. Sabine informs me the original plant was 

 found in Devonshire ; and 1 am also indebted to this gentleman 

 for the account of another remarkable variety, of a stout habit, 

 with very large pale-flesh-coloured petals, found wild in a hedge 

 in Somersetshire, by our much-lamented friend Mr. George An- 

 derson, a most faithful and intelligent observer. This is now 

 known to cultivators by the name of R. arvensis Andersonii. 



The Swedes have not R. arvensis, nor do they in general seem to 

 know it. Linnaeus adopted it, apparently without a specimen, 

 from Hudson ; and my very correct friend Dr. Afzelius thinks 

 it was afterwards confounded with something else. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 398, certainly a different species from arvensis, is referred by 

 Dr. Afzelius to pimpinellifulia, under which, as spinosissima, see 

 n. 3, I have quoted that figure. 



255. RUBUS. Bramble and Raspberry. 



Linn. Gen. 254. Juss. 338. Fl. Br. 54]. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. z?.30, 

 Tourn. t. 385. Lam. t.AA\. Gartn. t. 73. 



Nat. Orel. see. w. 254. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, simple, ovate-oblong, con- 

 cave, pointed, permanent segments, either spreading or 

 converging. Pei. 5, obovate, spreading or nearly erect, 

 often crisped, or folded, about the length of the calyx 

 or shorter, attached by their claws to its rim, alternate 

 with its segments, deciduous. Filam. numerous, capillary, 

 erect, shorter than the petals, from the tumid rim of the 

 calyx within the corolla. Atith. roundish, flattened, of 2 

 lobes. Germ, numerous, globular, crowded closely to- 

 gether into a round head. Styles 1 to each germen, lateral, 

 short, ascending, permanent, elongated after the flowering. 

 Stigmas obtuse, permanent. Berry compound, globular, 



