212 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
thinner in texture with fewer glands beneath and a much fainter 
scent ; flowers smaller, about 1 inch across, pale rose-colour, calyx- 
tube oblong-ovoid. Fruit regularly ovoid, contracted into a short 
neck at the top. 
This plant appears to be truly distinct from R. rubiginosa, 
receding in the direction of R. canina, which it resembles in its 
mode of growth. 
Small-flowered Sweetbriar. 
SPECIES X—ROSA SEPIUM. <¢Thwil.” Lindley. 
Pirate CCCCLXX. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 67. 
Prickles numerous, large, curved, rather unequal, intermingled 
with aciculi and occasionally a few gland-tipped sete. Leaflets 
oval or elliptical, doubly serrate, dark green and slightly hairy 
above, paler hairy and with numerous slightly fragrant glands 
beneath. Pedicels short, with oval bracts and a few gland-tipped 
aciculi. Styles hairy. Fruit narrowly urceolate-ovoid, scarlet 
when ripe. ‘Sepals persistent’? (Borrer), leaf-pointed, entire or 
sub-pinnatifid, “hairy on the outside, and fringed with gland- 
tipped teeth” (Borrer). 
At Bridport, Warwickshire, and possibly Heyford, Oxfordshire. 
England. Shrub. Summer. 
Of this plant I have only seen the specimens in Mr. Borrer’s 
herbarium at Kew, which are very imperfect. Mr. Baker has not 
seen any specimens of the British plant. It appears more nearly 
allied to R. rubiginosa in size, mode of growth, and armature of stem 
than to any of the other British species: but the dried specimens in 
Mr. Borrer’s herbarium are very similar to those of R. micrantha in 
habit, so that it might be very readily passed over as that species. 
Small-leaved Sweetbriar. 
French, Rose des Haies German, Zaun Lose. 
SPECIES XI—ROSA CRYPTOPODA. Baker. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 66. 
‘Prickles somewhat unequal, the larger ones uncinate and 
moderately robust below. Leaves 3 to 34 inches from the base to 
the terminal leaflet, which is oval or elliptical, either rounded or 
somewhat narrowed toward the base, and measures rather more than 
linch long by $ inch wide. Leaflets greyish or glaucous-green, 
