S88 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



prickles thereabouts are not so long as in ruhig'mosa ; segments 

 of the limb not very much pinnate, falling off as the fruit ripens. 

 The latter is scarlet, sometimes quite smooth, retaining its 

 oval form, with a short neck, and commonly much smaller than 

 the hips oi rubiginosa. 

 Mr. Lindlev, partly as it seems at the persuasion of Mr. Lyell, 

 makes- this a variety of the last ; but Mr. Borrer, Mr. Sabine 

 and Mr. Woods agree with me in keeping it distinct. Till we. 

 have more experience in the specific characters of this genus, 

 as no one can be competent, in difficult cases, to come to an ab- 

 solute conclusion, it is safer to discriminate than to confound. 



13. B.. Borreri. Downy-stalked Dog Rose. 



Fruit elliptical, smooth. Flower-stalks aggregate, hairy. 



Calyx copiously, often doubly, pinnate, deciduous. 



Prickles hooked. Leaflets ovate, doubly serrated, hairy, 



without glands. 

 R. Borreri. JVoods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 210. Winch Geogr. Dis- 



trib. 45. 

 R. dumetorum. Engl. Bot.v.36. t.2d79 ; but not, it seems, of 



Persoon. 

 R. rubiginosa ^. Lindl. Ros. 88. 

 /3 R rubiginosa inodora. Hook. Lond. ^.117. 



In hedges and thickets. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Slem from 6 to 10 feet high, round, firm, with numerous, spread- 

 ing, smooth, leafy branches. Prickles solitary or in pairs under 

 the branches and leaves, strongly hooked and deflexed, each 

 with a large oblong base. Footstalks downy. Leaflets mostly 

 7, broadly ovc^te, acute, doubly serrated, deep green, shining, 

 minutely hairy, flat ; the under side rather paler, most hairy 

 about the ribs, destitute of glands, as well as of scent. Stipulas 

 linear, pointed, glandular at the edges, but not at the back ; 

 the uppermost changed to ovate, pointed, slightly hairy hracteas, 

 fringed with stalked glands. Flower-stalks aggregate, some- 

 times numerous, seldom solitary, mostly downy or bristly, 

 rarely quite naked. Tube of the calijx elliptical, green or 

 brownish, smooth and naked; segments of the limb rather short, 

 spreading, deciduous, distantly fringed with stalked glands ; 

 two of them very copiously pinnate ; with crowded, broad, 

 partly compound, acute, smooth subdivisions. Petals flesh- 

 coloured, or light red, rather small. Fruit deep scarlet, occa- 

 sionally almost globular, with a short neck ^ sometimes rather 

 obovate. 



Dr. Panzer of Nuremberg has sent this species for E. sepium of 

 Rau, Enum. Rosar. 90, which Mr. Lindley considers as brae- 

 tescens of Woods, and a variety of canina. 



