ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 377 



little depressed, of a deep purplish black when quite ripe. I 

 have never tasted it. Withering records that tiie juice, " di- 

 luted with vi-ater, dyes silk and muslin of a peach colour, and 

 with the addition of alum, a deep violet ; but it has very little 

 effect on woollen or linen." 

 Such is our native j^lant, whose garden or foreign varieties are not 

 the object of this work. They are ably explained by Mr. Sabine. 

 The herbarium of Linnjeus contains no original or authentic spe- 

 cimen, marked or numbered by himself. What bears this name 

 is a paper of sevcrnl specimens, sent by a French correspondent, 

 and marked by Linnaeus pimpinellifolia, but to which I have put 

 the name spinosisshint ,- and to this Mr. Woods adverts, as the 

 true English ])lant ; Linn. Trans. IH3. It is not however in itself 

 of any authority, though unquestionably the same species with 

 another specimen, of more im])ortance, as being the only cer- 

 tain authority for R. pimjnnellifol'uiy and this last is sufficiently 

 perfect to decide any question, notwithstanding the stem being 

 stripped of its prickles, an accident often happening to the spino- 

 siss'ima, in exposed situations, as Mr. Woods truly remarks. 

 Whatever might be the OY\^m\t\ sphioiissima of Linnaeus, though 

 its synonyms preclude all doubt, and the cinnamontea seems to 

 me out of the question, as he has recorded that the ripe fruit of 

 his spinosmima is black ; he certainly did not recognise it in 

 this specimen, nor even advert to it, as at all related thereunto. 

 He described this identical specimen, by the name of pimpinelli- 

 folia, which he has written upon it, subjoining the letter A, 

 by which the species is distinguished in Si/st. Nat. ed. 10. r. 2. 

 10G2 ; according to his practice in that edition, to avoid disturb- 

 ing the numbers of the older species. This luckily establishes 

 the authority of the specimen beyond all question. The ])Iant 

 was suhsequoUlij received into the 2d edition of Sj). Plant., but 

 Linnajus knew not from whence it came, and still less was he 

 aware of its being jjrecisely his R. spinosissinia of the 1st edition 

 of that work. This name being the original one, and peculiarly 

 appropriate, I cannot comply with Mr. Sabine's suggestion of 

 changing it, however unwilling to differ, in any point, from so 

 able and candid a friend. I must also beg leave to observe 

 that neither Willdenow, Miller, nor Jacquin, however meri- 

 torious, arc of any authority in this case j except that, it their 

 R. pimpinellifolia were specifically distinct, tliis name might re- 

 main with it, as being verv des( riptivc. See Tr.of Hart. Soc. 

 r. 1.282. 



4. 11. i//rn////a. Pricklv I'lU'xpaiHk'd Rose. 



FlowLT-sUilks rrenerally without hracteas, bristly, like the 

 ♦:^l<)hular iVuit aiul sini])le calyx- Stem bristly and very 

 piickly. Leaflets idliptieal, doubly and sharply soiratcd: 

 tlieir \eiiis bairv Ix n<"atli. Ft lals convolute. 



