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ROSACEA [Rosa. 



beneath; calyx-segments and pinnse elongated, deciduous; fruit 

 small, elliptical and ovate ; ramuli sparingly deciduous. Br. 

 Fl. l.p. 233. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 387. E. BoL t. 2490. 



Open bushy commons and hedges. Near Cork ; Mr. J. Drum- 

 mond. Fl. June, July. T? . — " Scarcely stoloniferous, five to eight feet 

 high, of loose straggling growth, with arched shoots and spreading 

 branches. Prickles shortly hooked, not numerous, nor intermixed 

 with straight subulate ones, but a few strictly setaceous, and a few real 

 seta;, often occur immediately under the inflorescence ; occasionally 

 the flowering ramuli, and sometimes the points of the leafy shoots, are 

 altogether unarmed. Leaflets broadly elliptical or ovate, of a rather 

 pale green, and somewhat shining and slightly hairy above ; beneath 

 more hairy, and sprinkled copiously, as are the petioles and usually the 

 stipules, with rusty glands, diffusing a fragrance similar to that of the 

 sweet-briar, but less powerful, and sometimes, according to Woods, 

 intermixed with a turpentine odour. Peduncle setose. Calyx-tube 

 naked, or with a few seta, those at its base generally not larger than 

 the others ; its segments, with a long leafy point and narrow lanceolate 

 pinnae, fringed with gland-pointed teeth. Petals small, shorter than 

 the calyx, pale pink. Styles included, not hairy ; stigmas slightly 

 protuberant. Fruit coral-red, or scarlet, pulpy when ripe, and fla- 

 voured like that of JR. caniua ; the primordial, bluntly elliptical, never 

 pear-shaped ; the secondary ovate, with a slight neck, often somewhat 

 oblique. The flowers are for the most part neatly cupped, as in R. 

 systyla, and delicately fragrant. It is difficult to distinguish this plant 

 satisfactorily by characters from R. inodora, yet it differs considerably 

 in habit, its ramification being more tufted, although it sends out long 

 arched shoots, and also in its lengthened calyx-segments and its small 

 fruit. It is, in fact, more likely to be united to R. rubiginosa by bota- 

 nists who separate those two, yet deny to this the rank of a species. 

 The justice of its claim to such rank I am far from asserting positively, 

 yet its uniform and much less numerous prickles, its small pulpy fruits, 

 all rounded at the base, and its deciduous calyx-segments, seem con- 

 stant characters ; and its smaller and paler flowers, and arched strag- 

 gling shoots, distinguish it from R. rubiginosa at first sight." 

 Borrer. 



b. Prickles various, intermixed with seta. 



12. R. rubiginosa, Linn. True Siveet-Briar. Prickles nu- 

 merous, larger uncinate, smaller subulate; leaflets doubly ser- 

 rated, hairy, glandulose beneath, mostly rounded at the base ; 

 calyx-segments and pinna? elongated, persistent; primordial fruit 

 pear-shaped. Br. Fl. 1. p. 234. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 385. E. 

 BoL t. 991. — R. Eglanteria, Woods. 



Hedges near Passage ; Mr. J. Drummond. Near Belfast ; Mr. 

 Templeton. By the side of the river Roe, near Newtownlima- 

 vady ; Mr. D. Moore. Fl. June, July. I? . — Stoloniferous, four to 

 six feet high, compact and densely branched in general, and the shoots 

 seldom arched. Prickles numerous ; the large uncinate ones on the 

 stem and branches, mixed irregularly with abundance of smaller, some 

 slightly curved, and some straight, subulate, and setaceous ; and some 

 real set<e, which last, however, are not always present ; the flowering 



