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all this family ; and the straight prickles render it impossible 

 to mistake it for that species. If distinct, its place would be 

 before li. villosa, as nearer to the family of R. spiiwsissima. 

 The stipulas are almost membranous, which would form au 

 excellent character if it should be found constant. I have 

 only seen it in one place, on a rocky limestone bank at Ingle- 

 ton in Yorkshire; and al that time I was so puzzled by the 

 nuiltifarious appearance of the specimens 1 had collected, and 

 which I had not had opportunity to arrange, that I did not 

 pay it the attention it merited, and only preserved a single 

 specimen. 



It is with considerable doubt that I have quoted R. pomifera, 

 Fl. Bad. Ahat., as a synonym of this species. The author savs, 

 that sometimes two of the calyx-leafits are divided, which miAit 

 have induced me to refer it to R. scabriiiscula ; especially as the 

 name seems to indicate a large-fruited Rose; and the fruit of 

 R. scabriuscula is occasionally very large; but in other respects 

 it does not agree with that plant. 



I hesitate still more whether R. glandulosa, Lam. et Dec. FL 

 Fr. vi. 539, ought to be considered as a smooth variety of this 

 plant : it certainly approaches \ery near to it, except in the pu- 

 bescence. 



Rosa helvetica, Romer's Jrchiv. fiir die Botafiik, is perhaps a 

 dwarf variety of this species. Here again the description " foliolis 

 glabris inodoris" renders it very doubtful. 



9. Rosa scabriuscula. 



R. receptaculis ellipticis, calycibus subsimplicibus, bracteis ellip- 

 licis, aculeis rectiusculis suba?qualibus, foliolis anguste el- 

 lipticis d uplicato-serratis. 



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