92 ROSA RUBIGINOSA. 
the calyx roundish, smooth. _ divided, glandular. 
Flowers solitary, small, deep re 
I really wish some permanent character could be 
found for the R. sepium of Thuilliers. It is the plant 
to which Mr. Woods alludes under his R. eglanteria, 
as having been brought from the South of France by 
Mr. Hooker. It grows there by waysides, in hot, dry 
places, in great abundance. It is altogether a smaller 
plant, with dark green leaflets almost always acute at 
each end, slender prickles and very zigzag branches. 
The fruit is perfectly smooth as well as the peduncles, 
and the divisions of the sepals are unusually narrow 
and numerous. But, unfortunately, in a specimen from 
the vicinity of Nismes the transition from this to R. ru- 
biginosa vulgaris is so complete, that it is impossible to 
say which it most resembles—some of the leaflets being 
rounded and some acute. Yet it came from the same 
bush as the others whose appearance is so dissimilar, 
asia is my authority for the three synonyms of 
erat 
R. Borreri of Woods, which appears to be the same 
as R. inodora of Agardh’s Novitie, has given me more 
trouble than even the interminable varieties of R. ca- 
nina. It is a puzzle between the latter and rubiginosa, 
and, I do think, is equally referable to either. It is 
not "unfrequent in the neighbourhood of Halesworth 
with smaller leaves than ordinary, but unequivocally 
tinged at the edge with red. Its mode of growth and 
prickles are like rubiginosa, but its sepals are deciduous 
and leaves often without glands. Sometimes its ser- 
ratures diverge, sometimes point towards the end of 
the leaflet. Mr. Lyell has R. Borreri from Mr. Borrer 
growing by the side of R. micrantha, and the difference 
is very trifling. It is by the persuasion of the former 
gentleman that I have at length placed it here; for I 
certainly believed I had traced it into R. canina a. 
yest ‘R. villosa answers precisely to this; nor does 
h’s R. inodora appear to differ in any respect, 
odes in his calling the fruit purple. 
