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truly solitary and being pale pink, also in the shape of the fruit, 
and the pinnate sepals. I1f the form cordifolia really belong to this 
species, I do not see how it can be kept distinct from R. Sabini; 
but I have only seen one specimen kindly sent by Mr. Baker, and 
this, but for Mr. Baker’s opinion, I should have had no hesitation 
in referring to Wilsoni or Sabini rather than hibernica. 
Irish Burnet Rose. 
This Rose was discovered by Mr. John Templeton, in the county of Down, growing 
abundantly about Belfast harbour ; he consequently became entitled to the reward of 
£50 offered by the patrons of botany at Dublin for the discovery of a new Irish 
plant. 
SPECIES IV.—ROSA WILSONTL. Dorver. 
Puate CCCCLXIV. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 21. 
Prickles usually crowded, stout, straight or slightly curved, 
unequal, passing gradually into aciculi and sete, which are nu- 
merous. Leaflets oval or ovate, frequently sub-cordate at the base, 
rather unequally but scarcely doubly serrate, hairy on the veins 
and with scattered glands beneath, serratures occasionally gland- 
tipped. Pedicels solitary, or 2 or 3 together, with bracts when more 
than 1, thickly clothed with gland-tipped sete. Fruit erect, globular 
contracted into a neck at the apex, with a few gland-tipped aciculi, 
red. Sepals persistent, leaf-pointed, entire, with gland-tipped setee 
on the back. 
On the banks of the Menai Straits, near Bangor. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
Of this plant I have only seen dried specimens, and, judging 
from them, I should have called the plant a slight variety of K. 
Sabini, of which Mr. Baker is inclined to think it is a sub-species ; 
the only difference between the two being that the leaves are less 
distinctly doubly serrate. 
Wilson's Rose. 
SPECIES V—ROSA SABINI. (Woods), Baker. 
Priate CCCCLXYV. 
Laker, in Nat. 1864, p. 18. 
Prickles somewhat crowded, stout, straight or slightly curved, 
gradually passing into numerous aciculi and sete. Leaflets oval 
or ovate, sub-cordate at the base, doubly serrate, sparingly hairy 
above, densely so, and with scattered glands beneath, secondary ser- 
ratures generally gland-tipped. Pedicels solitary or 2 or 3 together, 
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