ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. S83 



it much resembles, I have received the latter in flower and fruit 

 from Mr. Hailstone, who gathered it at Redcar, near Gisbo- 

 rough, Yorkshire. The fruit is pear-shaped, bright scarlet, 

 near an inch long, and the accompanying foliage is greatly en- 

 larged. Petals not at all crenate. 



9. R. tomentosa. Downy-leaved Dog Rose. 



Fruit broadly elliptical, bristly. Calyx copiously pinnate. 

 Prickles slightly curved. Leaflets ovate, acute, more or 

 less downy. 



R. tomentosa. Fl. Br. .539. Engl Bot. v. 14. t. 990. Rees's Cycl. 



V. 30. n. 39. Comp. 78. Woods Tr. of L. Sac. i;. 1 2. 1 97. Lindl. 



Ros. 77, a. Part. 736. Afzel. Ros. Suec. tent. 1.5. Sims ^ Kan, 



Ann. V. 2. 2\4. 

 R. villosa /3. Huds. 219. mth. 466. Hull 111. Fillars Daiiph. 



r.3. 551. 

 R. villosa. Ehrh. Arh. 45. 



R. sylvestris fructu majore hispido. Rail S'jn. cd.2. 296. ed.^. 454. 

 R. sylvestris alba, cum aliquo rubore, folio hirsuto. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 



44./. good. 

 /S. R. scabriuscula. Engl.BoLv.27 . t. \S^6. Comp. 7%. Woods Tr. 



of L. Soc. i;. 12. 193. 

 R. n. 459. Winch Guide ?;. 1 . 48 ? i'. 2. pref 5 ? 



In hedges and thickets. 



/3 Near Newcastle. Mr. Winch. In hedges on the north side of 

 Bury 8t. Edmund's, Suffolk, 1804. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stem 6 feet high or more, branching, bushy, with round, brownish, 

 leafy, prickly, but otherwise smooth and naked, branches. 

 Prickles often two near together under the insertion of each leaf, 

 besides a few scattered solitary ones, all slender and awl-shaj)ed, 

 in some degree curved, but with no very great dilatation at the 

 base ; nor are they compressed and sickle-shaped, like the spe- 

 cies of the next section. Leaflets 5 or 7, ovate, or slightly el- 

 liptical, most acute at the extremity, and somewhat pointed ; 

 their serratures double, acute and glandular ; both surfaces 

 usually hoary, soft and downy, with a slight resinous scent, the 

 under one more or less glandular. Footstalks downy, sometimes 

 beset with many hooked |)rickles, as well its with copious glan- 

 dular bristles. Sfipulas linear, downy, with a dense glandular 

 fringe ; the up|)erniost becoming broad, ovate, pointed hractcas. 

 Flower-stalks usually 2 or 3, often solitary, seldom 1, longer or 

 shorter than the bracteas, clothed ])lentifully witli glandular 

 bristles of various lengths. Tube of the (dli/v elliptic-oblong, 

 sometimes almost globular, generally covered irrt'gularly with 

 glandular brisllts, which are most crowded about the base 3 but 



