ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 381 



acute marginal leaflets, and clothed, as well as fringed, like 

 those leaflets, with numerous short bristles, or stalked glands. 

 Pe/aZ*' large, expanded, of a fine red. Wipe fruit, sent by Mr. 

 Hailstone, ovate, bright scarlet, bearing a few glandular bristles, 

 especially at the base, and crowned with the long, upright, 

 glandular, tawny segments of the calyx. 

 B. Sabini, honoured with the name of a most indefatigable and in- 

 telligent observer and cultivator of the whole genus, is perhaps 

 the finest British species, though hitherto overlooked. It con- 

 cludes the list of those which bear glandular bristles on the stem, 

 and is distinguished from all the rest by the pinnate, or con\- 

 pound, segments of its calyx. 



** Branches "jcithout bi^isties. Prickles nearhj strcdght. 



8. R. villosa. Soft-leaved Round-fruited Rose. 



Fruit globose, somewhat depressed, partly bristly. Calyx 

 slightly compound. Prickles nearly straight. Leaflets 

 rounded, bluntish, all over downy. 



R. villosa. Linn. Sp. PL 704 ? H. Suec. ed. 2. 463. Herb. Linn. n. 3. 



mild. V. 2. 1069 ? IVoods Tr. of L. Soc. u. 12. 189. Ft. Br. 5:^8 /3. 

 K. mollis. Kngl. hot. t\3:). t. 24a9. Rees's Cyd. v. 30. n. 21. 



Comp. 7S. Ji'inch Geogr. Distrib. 42. 

 R. tomentosa /3. Lludl. Ros. 77. Hook. Scot. 156. 

 /3. R. heteroph\ 11a. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12.19.>. 

 y. R. pulchella. Woods ibid. \9ij. 



In bushy, rather mountainous, situations, in Wales, Scotland, and 

 the north of England. 



Between Edinburgli and Ravelston wood, gathered in 1782. Found 

 also by Mr. G. Jackson in Scotland ; by the Rev. Hugh Davies 

 in Anglesea ; by Mr. Woods in Yorkshire and Cumberland 3 and 

 by Mr. Winch in Northumberland. 



/3 near Edinburgh. Mr. Borrtr. 



y near Ingleton, Yorkshire. Mr. Woods. 



Stent about 6 feet high, often much less, with scattered brown 

 prickly branches, rather glaucous when young, but neither 

 bristly nor hairy. Prickles scattered, pale, slender, nearly 

 straight. Lef[/icts i) or 7 , more or less rounded and obtuse, 

 often obovate, with double acute glandular sorratures ; both 

 surfaces soft and downy, with a hoary as|)ect ; the under j)alest, 

 wrinkled, with jjrominent veins, lootstdlks downy, bristly and 

 glandular, with several sliglilly curved jjrickles. Stipulas ob- 

 long, pointed, very downy, thickly fringed with minute, almost 

 sc>sile glands ; the uj)|)er pair or two often destitute of leaves, 

 and each pair united into a broad, ovate, acute, woolly braclea, 

 with a stronc: mid-rib. Howrr-stalks I or 2 at the summit of 



