Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 189 



segments may I believe always be observed if examined with at- 

 tention ; but they are sometimes so strictly capillary as hardly to 

 be distinguished from very large and long seta?. 



This Rose does not seem to have been before noticed ; I have 

 therefore given to it the name of a gentleman who has long culti- 

 vated and investigated the characters, principally of the foreign 

 Roses, with the greatest care. The result of his labours will not 

 I hope be long withheld from the public. It is by his assistance 

 that I am enabled to distinguish this species from all others. 



This species and the five preceding form the English portion of 

 the family of R. spitiosissima. R. rubella, R. spinosissima, R. invo- 

 luta, R. Doniana, R. gracilis, and R. Sabini, all agree in having 

 persistent setae on the stems and branches, the stipulae not in- 

 creasing in breadth towards the inflorescence, or only in a slight 

 degree, the flowers few together, and the fruit nearly round. I 

 have already mentioned how slight my knowledge is of the exotic 

 species ; and perhaps in this subdivision I have fewer materials 

 of comparison than in any other; but considering that the more 

 completely I exhibit my ideas on the subject of the arrangement 

 of the genus, the better chance I have of making my principles 

 understood, 1 venture to mention R. kamschatica as the only 

 foreign addition to the tribe at present known. 



8. Rosa villosa. 



R. leceptaculis subglobosis, calycibus simplicibus, aculeis rec- 

 tiusculis subaequalibus, foliolis rhombeo-ellipticis, bracteis 

 ellipticis. 



R. villosa. Linn. Herb. Linn. Sp. PL i. 704 ? JVilld. ii. 1069 ? 



R. mollis. Engl. Bot. xxxv. t. 2459. 



R. pomifera. C. Gmelin Fl. Bad. Alsat. ii. 410? 



R. glandulosa. Lam. et Dec. Fl. Fr. vi. 539? 



R. helvetica. R:6mer's Arch. b. i. st. 2. p. 6? 



Frutex 



