78 ON ROSA SEPIUM. 



To find the R. sepium, take the lane that leads from Haslemere 

 station on the west side of the railway, and runs nearly parallel with 

 it up the hollow past Stoatley Parm, following this lane out to the 

 head of the valley, and leaving it where a cart-track diverges from the 

 main road on the edge of the moor, due south of the fir-wood that 

 crests the conspicuous hill (a spur of Hind Head) that overlooks the 

 railway about two miles north of Haslemere station. I saw only a 

 single hush of the Rose on the edge of the moor that slopes down to 

 this cart-track, and could find no other anywhere else in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The elevation of the place above sea-level will not be more 

 than 300 or 400 feet. 



This Hind Head Eose corresponds precisely with the R. sepium ot 

 Des6glise's Herbarium Rosarum, No. 30, which was named by him 

 after study of an original type-specimen of Thuillier's plant, communi- 

 cated by Professor Boreau ; and, out of the crowd of references that 

 belong to it, the following may be cited : — 



R. sepium, ThuiU. Par. (1799) p. 252 ; De Cand. PI. Franc, vol. v. 

 p. 538 ; Herat. PI. Par. 192; Leman, Bull. Phil. Extr. p. 10 ; Tratt. 

 Mon. Ros. vol. ii. p. 32 ; Boreau, Pi. du Centre, ed. 3. vol. ii. p. 229 j 

 Descglise, Essai, p. 103. R. sepium, var. rosea, Desvaux, Journ. Bot. 

 1813, p. 116. R. sepium, a. Gren. PI. Jurass. p. 250. R. sepium, a. 

 archetypa, Dumort. Ros. Belg. p. 55. R. ruhiginosa, var. sepium, 

 Seringe in De Cand. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 617 ; Grren. and Godr. PI. 

 Prance, vol. i. p. 560. — Billot, Exsic. 1871, bis, ter, et quater. 

 Deseg. 30. 



A bush 5 or 6 feet high, not appreciably different from R. mi- 

 crmitha in general habit, with a slight Sweetbriar fragrance. Prickles 

 uniform or with a few scattered aciculi intermixed, those of the main 

 branches decidedly falcate, 4-4^ lines long, with a scar as deep. Pully 

 developed leaves scarcely over 2 inches long, with the terminal leaflets 

 oblong-lanceolate, 10-12 lines long, 6-7 lines broad, the base cu- 

 neate, the main serratures erecto-patent, copiously compound, with 

 fine gland-tipped teeth, the upper surface quite glabrous, the lower 

 with conspicuous viscous glands thickly scattered all over, slightly 

 and inconspicuously pubescent on the midrib ; the common petiole 

 with 2-4 uniform, slightly falcate aciculi, copious glands, and a 

 few hairs. Stipules glandular on the surface, and copiously gland- 

 ciliated. Plowers 1-4 on naked peduncles 6-9 lines long. Calyx- 



