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often with ovate bracts, usually with gland-tipped aciculi. Fruit 
erect, subglobose, generally with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi, 
red. Sepals persistent, leaf-pointed, entire or slightly pinnatifid, 
with gland-tipped setee on the back. 
Mr. Baker distinguishes three forms :— 
1. Rosa coronata (Orepin), including R. Sabini (Woods, 
HE. B. S. 2594), Doniana (Woods, FE. B. S'. 2601), and 
gracilis (Woods, L. B. 583,—excl. fruit). 
Pedicels and calyx-tubes with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. 
Leaves with conspicuously compound teeth, hairy on both sides and 
. more or less glandular beneath. 
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‘Frequent, and extending from Sussex and the Isle of Wight to 
Clova, in Forfarshire, and Braemar, in Aberdeen. 
2. Rosa involuta. Sm. (£. B. 2068). 
Pedicels and calyx-tube with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. 
Leaves imperfectly doubly serrate, nearly glabrous above, hairy on 
the veins, and nearly destitute of glands beneath. 
In the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland. 
3. Rosa Robertsoni. Bazer. 
Pedicels with aciculi and gland-tipped aciculi. Calyx-tube 
nearly smooth. Leaves imperfectly doubly serrate, sub-glabrous 
above, hairy on the veins, and sparingly glandular beneath. 
In Northumberland and Yorkshire. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A variable plant, 2 to 6 or even 8 feet high, with the leaves 
-more downy than in the preceding, the flowers usually larger, vary- 
ing from pink to white. It has a somewhat resinous scent, from 
the presence of glands. 
Mr. Baker is doubtless correct in considering that R. Sabini, 
R. Doniana, and R. gracilis of English authors are undistinguish- 
able; they seem to be mere states induced by circumstances of 
erowth. Mr. Bentham is inclined to refer IR. involuta to R. 
spinosissima; but, judging from descriptions (not having seen 
specimens), Mr. Baker appears to be right in placing it under R. 
Sabini. 
Sabine’s Rose. 
