a) ROSA HIBERNICA. 
bottom; sepals long, pinnated, hispid on the outside, 
refiexed, deciduous ; petals concave, emarginate; disk 
thickened, and flattened; séydes villous, distinct. Frait 
oblong, scarlet or blood-coloured. 
If R. gallica be the most splendid of the garden 
Roses, this species may be considered the most beauti- 
ful. Nothing can be more delicately coloured than its 
full double, blush petals, nor more gratefully fragrant 
than their scent. It is naturalized on the banks of the 
Tyne, as lam informed by Mr. Winch; but it has not 
yet been found wild in this country. It has been dis- 
covered in France; and is not uncommon in Germany 
and Piedmont. Is it possible that Loureiro’s R. alba 
can be it: 
Rugose, very glaucous leaves, simple serratures, 
long, reflexed, deciduous sepals, and usually acicular 
unequal prickles, divide it from R. tomentosa and ca- 
-nina. R. turbinata resembles it more in its botanical 
characters than in reality. 
47. ROSA hibernica. 
R. aculeis inzequalibus: minoribus setiformibus, foliolis 
ovatis acutis nudiusculis simpliciter serratis. 
R. hibernica Eng. bot! t. 2196. Ait! kew.’ed. alt. 3. 
261. Smith! in Rees inl. Woods? in act. linn. 
12. 222. 
Hab. in Hibernia Templeton (v. v. c. & s. sp. herb. 
Banks, Hooker, Smith, Se i 
mpact shrub three or four feet high. Branches 
APR: reddish brown, with equal, straight prickles and _ 
