60 ROSA SABINI. 
little prickles; leaflets 5-7, oval, doubly ser rate, flat, 
hairy on both sides, a little glandalar beneath. Flowers 
usually solitary, sometimes in great bunches; peduncles 
and calyx very hispid; the tube round; sepals com- 
pound. Fruit round, scarlet, hispid with setae. 
By specimens from Mr. Winch I have ascertained 
this to be his R. involuta. It is a charming plant; 
and as it is by far the most interesting of our British 
species, it has been with peculiar propriety dedicated 
by Mr. Woods to our common friend Mr. Sabine. 
It differs from R. involuta in being far more robust 
and more strongly aculeated. The peduncles are soli- 
tary or aggregate, and in the latter case furnished with 
bracteze ; the sepals also are compound. It is so pre- 
cisely intermediate between this division and the next, 
that it might with equal reason be referred to either. 
As it however is a British plant, and moreover con- 
fessedly of the family of involuta, I have preferred 
placing it in this division, notwithstanding its divided 
sepals and somewhat thickened disk. 
Doniana is more dwarf than the other, and has 
straight prickles without setz on the branchlets. 
Can this be after all a production of R. tomentosa 
mollis ? 
Div. VI. Centifolie. Setigeree, armis difformibus ; 
bracteatze. Foliola oblonga v. ovata, rugosa. Dis- 
cus incrassatus faucem claudens. Sepala composita. 
This division comprises the portion of the genus 
which has most particularly interested the lovers of 
flowers. It is probable that the earliest Roses of which 
there are any records, as being cultivated, belonged to 
some portion of it; but to which particular species 
