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cernuous and the calyx tube very prickly. The unripe fruit is figured 

 from a garden specimen at E. B. 583, along with a flowering branch of 

 R. Sabini. There are specimens in flower both in Mr. Watson's and 

 Mr. Syme's collections, labelled " Cotes heath, Staffordshire, June 25, 1850, 

 Kev. R. C. Douglas," but it is a rose not very uncommonly grown in gardens 

 and hardly likely to be a native of Britain. According to Fries it is 

 scattered over the East of Norway, Sweden, Gothland and Denmark. 

 According to Crepin it is doubtfully indigenous in Belgium. It is scattered 

 over the North of Germany (Hamburgh, Coblentz, Frankfort, &c.) In France 

 it is not known to occur in the eastern half, and according to Boreau it is 

 doubtful as a plant of the Centre, but there are numerous stations in the 

 hilly tracts of the West, in the Pyrenees, and in Savoy and Switzerland. 

 If the use of the Linnean name villosa be continued, it is this plant that 

 has the best right to it. (See Fries Novit. FL Suce.) 



V. — R. TOMENTOSA. Smith. A tufted shrub with somewhat arching 

 stems, eight to ten feet high, erecto-patent or diffuse branches, which are 

 purplish in exposure, and soft greyish unfolded leaves. Prickles of the 

 well -matured stem uniform, the base about a quarter of an inch deep, the 

 prickles three-eighths to a quarter of an inch long, considerably less robust 

 at the lower part than in R. cmiina, but often more so chan in the preceding, 

 varying in shape from straight to falcate. Well developed leaves of the 

 barren stem measuring from four and a half to five inches from the base 

 to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is ovate or elliptical, rounded or 

 even cordate at the base, and measures from an inch and a half to one and 

 three-quarters long, by from one inch to one and a quarter broad. Leaflets 

 grey-green or full green, and more or less thickly covered all over with 

 hairs on the upper surface, paler and more hairy beneath, varying from 

 almost or quite glandless to thickly glandular all over the blade, the 

 serratures open and furnished with two or three fine gland-tipped teeth, 

 the petioles villose, more or less glandular and furnished with two or three 

 setaceous or slightly hooked aciculi. Stipules and bracts more or less 

 densely hairy and glandular on the back, copiously setoso-ciliated. 

 Peduncles longer than in the preceding, more or less densely aciculate 

 and setose. Calyx tube ovate-urceolate or subglobose, aciculate and setose 

 or naked, the segments from three-quarters to an inch long, leaf-pointed and 

 often more or less pinnate, the more luxuriant ones copiously so, all 

 densely coated on the back with setae and aciculi. Petals normally of a 

 bright clear rose-colour, sometimes white, occasionally ciliated along the 



