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a specimen, which I did about the summer of 1832, from that 

 locality, and he then pronounced it to be Rosa rubella. Six or seven 

 years since, I forwarded to Mr. John Storey of our Club, at the 

 request of the Rev. Mr. Abbes, a list of corrections and additi^ms 

 to my Catalogue of Plants published in Brewster's Hist., and 

 among them I inserted this Rosa rubella on Mr. Winch's authority. 

 Mr. Storey wished me to send him a specimen of the plant, in 

 the latter part of the autumn, I think, of 1857, which might 

 then be in fruit. At that time I searched the lane carefully 

 and could find no fruit; but some plants, which appeared to be 

 R. spinosissima. Last summer, at the latter end of June, I again 

 searched the same lane, but could find only the plants, and no 

 flowers, or any remains of flowers, for they seemed to me not to 

 have flowered that year. And, on September 23, 1858, I for- 

 warded to Mr. Storey a small piece, I believe, of one of these plants , 

 to show what I conceived to be the R. rubella. On June 17th, 

 however, this year, on going to the same spot, I was delighted 

 to find on one of the plants a rose fully blown, of a sweet-pink colour. 

 The same plant had only two more buds, one of which was nearly 

 blown, and which, on being placed in water, came out the sam& 

 pink colour on the second day. A second plant, near the former 

 one, and less in size, had two buds. On the whole, they were less 

 pink than the flowers of the first plant; but, if they had been 

 allowed to blossom, they might have assumed a darker tint. — 

 July 11, 1859. — Three weeks ago, I examined in the British 

 Herbarium, at the Linnean Society, some specimens of R. rubella, 

 preserved by Mr. Woods, and by the late Mr. Winch. Mr. 

 Woods has stated that he found specimens of the same rose in 

 Castle Eden Dene some years ago; and he considers it to be a 

 good species. One of the principal differences between the R. 

 spinosissima and R. rubella is, that ihefmit of the former, at first 

 red, becomes when mature black; whilst that of the latter is said 

 t© continue red when ripe; this last is likewise distinguished by 

 some Botanists as being " pendant." Having compared my speci- 

 mens with those of R. rubella preserved in Winch's Herbarium, I 

 found that i\\Q fruit there dried exhibits neither of those characters ; 

 bat it is black, or purplish black, and its stalk is straight, and by 



