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short, quite naked, hidden by the bracts and stipules. Calyx tube naked, 

 broadly ovate or subglobose, purple in exposure. Sepals leaf-pointed and 

 copiously pinnate, erecto-patent after the petals fall, hardly at all gland- 

 ciliated, naked on the back, but usually tomentose towards the edges. Styles 

 villose. These notes are taken from a specimen gathered by Woods at 

 the original locality of Ulverstone in Lake-Lancashire, and from a pre- 

 cisely similar example gathered by Mr. Watson, near the Castletown of 

 Braemar, in 1844. Neither of these shews the mature fruit, but there can 

 be, I think, no question of the identity of our plant with that of the Con- 

 tinent. There is an excellent Scandinavian specimen from Swartz, under 

 his original name of sepium, amongst Mr. Robertson's Roses. It is included 

 both in flower and fruit in Deseglise's Herbarium Rosarum, from the 

 Canton of the Hautes Alpes, and is described in his Monograph ; and I 

 have it from Savoy, gathered both by the Abbe Puget and Dr. Fauconnet. 

 Fries says that the fruit ripens a month before that of canina, and he calls the 

 sepals persistent, but they appear to endure, as in the other plants placed in 

 this sub-section, only until after the fruit changes colour, and to fade and 

 fall as it ripens. It is described from Northern Germany by Von Garcke, 

 and from the vicinity of Geneva by Renter : and B. crassifolia, Wallmann, 

 and R. terebinthinacea, Grenier, appear to be the same plant. A specimen 

 gathered by Winch, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, has the large bracts and 

 short peduncles of this, but leaves in shape, clothing, and toothing, more 

 like those of the preceding. 



13. R. celerata. Habit of growth and prickles of the normal 

 plant. Leaves flat, firm but thin in texture, full green and glabrous on 

 the upper surface, pale green and hairy on the midrib and principal veins 

 beneath, the serratures open and as broad as deep, each furnished with 

 two or three fine gland-tipped teeth on each side, the terminal leaflet 

 broadly ovate and much rounded at the base, the petioles pubescent and 

 setose, and prickly. Stipules and bracts copiously setoso-ciliated, naked 

 or nearly so on the back. Peduncles naked. Calyx tube and fruit sub- 

 globose, the latter turning scarlet very early in September, the sepals 

 erecto-patent after the petals fall, leaf-pointed and copiously pinnate, 

 somewhat tomentose towards the edges, copiously setoso-ciliated and mostly 

 lasting until after the fruit changes colour. Styles hairy. Thickets 

 in Holywell dene, Northumberland. This agrees with tomentella in the 

 shape of the leaves, but differs in the fruit. 



Subsection III. Hispid^. Leaves not glandular beneath but the 



