204: ENGLISH BOTANY. 
rarely red. Sepals persistent; not leaf-pointed, entire, naked on the 
back. : 
On sandy sea-shores, heaths, and hills of chalk or trap rock. 
Rather common, and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer. 
A well-marked species, with much-branched very prickly stems, 
lto 4 feet high. Leaflets rather rigid, } to ? inch long, deep 
green, paler beneath; serratures deep, most of them simple, occa- 
sionally one or two of them with an accessory tooth. Flowers large 
for the size of the plant, 14 to 2 inches across, white, rarely pink. 
Calyx-tube subglobose, glabrous, purple on one side; segments 
shorter than the petals, entire, mostly erect in fruit. 
A form with ovate fruit has been gathered by Mr. Robertson in 
Castle Eden Dean, Durham, and one with the peduncle and lower 
part of the fruit with prickles and gland-tipped sete, at Brighton, 
by Mr. Borrer. 
Common Burnet Rose. 
French, Roster trés-épineux. German, Steinpeterleinblattrige Rose. 
This species is also known as the Pimpernel Rose, or Scotch Rose, and is frequently 
cultivated in gardens. A great many varieties have been raised from it. The first 
double variety was found in a wild state in the neighbourhood of Perth, and from this 
one were produced above fifty others. All nursery-men have a large selection of this 
particular rose. The ripe fruit of the wild kind is a favourite with children, and is not 
injurious. The juice diluted with water dyes silk and muslin of a peach-colour, and 
mixed with alum produces a deep violet hue. The plant is much liked by French 
horticulturists, and they have no less than 123 distinct varieties. This was the only 
Rose found by Sir W. Hooker in Iceland. 
SPECIES IL—ROSA RUBELLA. Sm. 
Pirate CCCCLXII. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 17. 
Prickles few, scattered, slender, nearly straight, spreading, 
nearly equal; gland-tipped setze very numerous. Leaflets roundish 
or oval, simply and equally serrated, glabrous and without glands 
on both sides. Pedicels solitary and without bracts, with numerous 
aciculi and gland-tipped sete. Fruit drooping, urceolate-ovoid, 
with gland-tipped sete near the base, red. Sepals persistent, 
slightly leaf-pointed, entire, glandular on the back. 
On the sea-shore. Very rare, and probably now extinct. Found 
on the Durham coast by Mr. Winch. | 
England? Shrub. Early Summer. 
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