76 ROSA VILLOSA. 
The flowers usually grow in pairs and with stalks of 
unequal length: the longer drooping gracefully as the 
fruit ripens. The young shoots are remarkably glau- 
cous (as in R. alba), and there is a manifest tendency 
to produce setz and glands on the branchlets. The 
curious plant which Mr. Woods calls gracilis has nu- 
merous sete intermixed with the prickles: thus having 
in a great measure the characters of the centifolie di- 
vision. Mr. Sabine detected it among young plants 
raised from seed of the common tree Rose, in Mr. Lee’s 
nursery at Hammersmith. 
R. villosa of Pallas seems to be rather a variety of 
R. rubiginosa; of most other authors to be the next 
species. 
Grows probably all over Northern and Middle Eu- 
rope and Northern Asia, but not in great abundance. 
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