230 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
to it when Hotspur makes his reproachful speech to the earls of Northumberland and 
Worcester, accusing them of trying 
“To put down Richard, that sweet, lovely Rose, 
And plant this thorn, this Canker Bolingbroke !” 
Therein meaning a usurper, which is certainly an unfair use of the term when applied 
to our own native wild hedge-side Rose, blowing in our quiet country lanes, or clothing 
dry sand-banks with a spring robe of beauty, and perfuming the air with its sweetness, 
Grover V.—SYSTYLA. 
Bushes with sub-erect or trailing stems; shoots with the prickles 
scattered, uniform, not intermingled with aciculi or gland-tipped 
setze. Leaves glabrous above and glabrous or slightly hairy 
beneath. Pedicels numerous, in a sub-umbellate cyme, furnished 
with sessile glands or gland-tipped aciculi or naked. Styles united 
into acolumn. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, with deciduous sepals. 
SPECIES XV.—ROSA SYSTYLA. Woods. 
Pirate CCCCLXXV. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 143. 
X. collina, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1895. 
Stem erect or arching; prickles scattered, large, curved, uni- 
form, not intermingled with aciculi or gland-tipped setee. Leaflets 
elliptical acuminate, sharply and unequally serrate, but not regularly 
doubly serrate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent on the veins 
beneath, nearly or entirely destitute of glands. Pedicels rather 
elongate, with elliptical acuminate bracts, furnished with a 
few short gland-tipped aciculi and sete, very rarely naked. Petals 
pink. Styles glabrous, united, forming a column of variable length, 
surrounded by a convex disk destitute of glands. Stigmas in an 
ovoid head. Fruit ovoid, rarely globular, scarlet. Sepals deci- 
duous, moderately long, leaf-pointed, and pinnate. 
In hedges and thickets. are, and apparently confined to the 
southern counties of England, where it has occurred in Somerset, 
Sussex, Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Gloucester, Worcester, Cambridge, 
and in South Wales. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A tall plant, often 8 or 10 feet high, with the habit of R. canina, 
but with the leaves usually more sharply serrated and the corymb 
consisting of more numerous flowers. Flowers of the size and 
colour of those of R. canina. 
