ROSA RUBIGINOSA. 89 
Hooker; € circa Wirceburgum (Rau); 4 Gallia 
Decand.; 5 Anglia; Rossia (Pall.); Suecia, (Agardh). 
(v. v. Sp.3 <, 4, 8. sp. herb. Hooker.) 
Much branched, three or four feet high, with a 
more compact habit than R. canina. Branches bright 
green, flexuose, armed with numerous, hooked, un- 
equal, scattered, strong prickles; on the rootshoots 
sometimes very small and tipped with a gland. Leaves 
dull, rugose, green, very sweetscented, covered beneath 
with numerous brown glands ; stipule dilated, tooth- 
letted, hairy beneath; petioles with a few strong, un- 
equal prickles ; leaflets 5-7, roundish or ovate, pointed, 
doubly serrated, somewhat spoonshaped, usually naked 
above, covered with hairs, and very pale and rugose 
beneath: Flowers one to three together, concave, pale 
blush; bractee pale, lanceolate, acute, concave, slightly 
hairy and glandular; peduncles and calyz hispid, with 
weak setze; tube ovate: sepals reflexed, pinnate ; petals 
obcordate ; disk much thickened; ovaries 30-40; styles 
hoary, distinct. Fruit orange red, roundish, oblong 
or obovate, hispid or smooth; crowned by the ascend- 
ing sepals. 
Under the foregoing species I have attempted to 
explain why I cannot agree with Mr. Woods in adopting 
the rejected Linnean name of eglanteria. If it is to be 
retained at all, this is certainly not the plant to bear it. 
The more common appearance of this plant is a 
compact, much-branched bush, with pale red flowers in 
threes, bristly scarlet fruit and bright green but not 
shining leaves, which are powerfully and gratefully 
fragrant. All these characters are, however, liable to 
considerable variation, and have been the foundation of 
a multitide of supposed species. Many of them have 
been given up by their authors; and those which re- 
main may be reduced to seven natural groups, to which 
I have prefixed the best characters I have been able to 
find, 
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