30 ROSA CINNAMOMEA. 
plaining which sort he means; but this cannot be, for 
in Flora Suecica, ed. 2, the fruit is expressly said to be 
black, which is always the case with our spinosissima 
and never with any individual of this division. 
The double variety is much more common than the 
single and has altogether a different aspect ; the shoots 
are not strong and upright, but weak and wiry, and 
the leaves are flat, not concave. YetI have no inform- 
ation of this in a single state, and therefore suspect 
these characters to have some connexion with the mon- 
strosity in the flowers; and possibly the one would 
disappear with the other. 
Mr. Wood rightly observes that R. cinnamomea of 
Roth is R. lutea bicelor. 
Of R. fluvialis of Flora Danica I have specimens 
collected in Switzerland by Mr. Hooker. It seems to 
be a smaller plant, the leaves are shorter and the 
prickles less than in the common sort : the flowers too 
are of a deeper red. It has small pretensions to be a 
Species ; but may possibly be an intermediate state be- 
tween R. cinnamomea and majalis, agreeing with the 
latter in size and shape of leaves, but in every other 
essential respect with the former. 
KR. cinnamomea of Hermann is spinosissima. 
