78 _ ROSA TOMENTOSA. 
Hibernia, Drummond. (v. v. s. & ¢.; ys. sp. herb. 
Hooker.) 
Seven or eight feet high, spreading, very gray. 
Branches somewhat glaucous, armed with straight, 
(rarely falcate) equal, scattered prickles and without 
ze. Leaves hoary with down; stipules concave, di- 
lated, toothletted and fringed with glands; petioles 
slightly prickly and glandular ; leaflets about 5, oblong 
or ovate, obtuse, doubly serrated; serratures diverging, 
rarely converging ; soft and rugose, paler beneath, and 
sometimes slightly glandular, when bruised having a 
turpentine smell. Flowers one or more, reddish, cup- 
shaped, with short stalks; bracteas ovate or oblong, 
downy, longer or shorter than the peduncles, which are 
hispid with unequal setz and glands; tube of the calyx 
ovate, oblong or round, usually hispid, sometimes nearly 
smooth; sepals compound, spreading, always hispid at 
‘the back; petals entire, obcordate, concave ; disk thick- 
ened, flat ; styles very hairy, distinct. Fruit somewhat 
purple, round or obovate, or depressed, usually hispid, 
crowned by the converging sepals; but these sometimes 
fall off immediately after the fruit is ripe. 
If Tam right in referring Borkhausen’s Rosa mol- 
lissima to this variety rather than the next, it will have 
the claim of priority over Sir James Smith’s tomentosa. 
But, however, as this cannot be absolutely determined 
without actual inspection of authenti¢ specimens, I have 
preferred leaving the name as I found it. 
This is the most variable of the genus except ca- 
mina; but the greater part of. the varieties are very 
triflmg and can be brought. within the compass of a 
tolerable definition only in. the three instances of éo- 
mentosa and mollis of English Botany and resinosa of 
Mr. Lyell’s MSS. ? | 
The first has the leaflets smooth above (tomentosa 
Woods. and fetida Bat.)—or smooth on both sides 
(tomentosa » Woods)—or without glands (tomentosa o 
Woods). The fruit is long, round, depressed or tur- 
