134 ROSACEiE. 



Brit. Roses. Jour. Lin. Soc. xi. 218.) If it be so, the plants named 

 fcetida must come under e. sylvestris of the London Catahgue. Yet Dr. 

 Lindley himself, in his Synopsis., puts fcetida, Bast., as a variety under 

 R. tomaitosa, Sm., and makes a distinct species of sylvestris. R. sca- 

 hriusGula and the other thin-leaved forms are, as a rule, found in damper 

 spots than the plants with clothy leaves. Rosa tomentosa is a very lovely 

 Rose, beautiful both in flower and fruit. Often by the end of August the 

 latter is of a rich scarlet. What Deseglise regards as the true plant of 

 Smith is remarkable for its very soft leaves, with comparatively few- 

 glands. 



272. R. rubiginosa, L. Common Svjeethriar. 



Native ; in bushy spots and on banks. Very rare. June, July. 

 0. I. In a hedge near Callington by the road to Saltash ; probably 

 introduced, as Berberis vulgaris and Ligiistrum vulgare seem 

 planted in the hedge. 

 II. A small stunted bush on a rocky bank by the Torpoint and 

 Liskeard turnpike road, near Antony, a little west of Hay 

 Lane. One among furze by the St. Dominick Road, above 

 Vernico Down. 

 D. III. Two bushes near together but on different sides of the Plymouth 

 and Saltash Road, about three miles from Plymouth ; botli 

 growing where a periodical pruning will most probably prevent 

 either from ever producing flowers. Honicknowle ; some bushes 

 on the border of a field, in front of Warwick Park house and 

 garden : likely to have sprung from the seed of cultivated 

 bushes. One plant on a hedge-bank between Powisland and 

 the George Hotel, near Knackersknowle. [Some years ago a 

 bush between Knackersknowle and Tamerton Foliot, growing 

 among furze ; it has since disappeared.] 

 IV. A bush in a waste spot on limestone near Radford ; flowering in 

 1872. A bush or two in Turtles Wood, above the Plym valley, 

 near Riverford. 

 V. One on a hedge-bank near Lee Mill Bridge. In a waste spot by 

 the railway line near Corn wood ; found here some years ago, 

 with Pastinaca sativa ; both species perhaps marking the site 

 of some old garden. 

 VI. A small bush on the side of a hedge-bank near Mothecombe, by 



the road to Battisborough. 

 We have R. comosa, Ripart, and R. rotundifoUa, Rau. ; two of M. 

 Deseglise's species. The latter appears as quite a sylvestral shrub in 

 Turtles Wood, but' most of our examples of the ' sweetbriar ' are in less 

 satisfactory situations. The probability of the seeds being carried by 

 bii'ds from garden-grown bushes is so great that it is impossible to say to 



