194 Mr. AVooDS on the British Species of Rosa. 



R. scabriiiscula. Engl. Bot. xw'i'i. t.^896. Winch Bot. Guide, ii. 

 Br. p. 5. 



Frutex 4 — 6-pedalis. flami vagi, fusto-olivacei, aculeati ; aculei recti, gracilis oranis qui 

 in situ eodem ejusdem fere maguitudiiiis, plerumque binato-stipulares, sed sparsi quo- 

 que iiiveniuntur. Pclioli tomcntosi, giaiululosi, aculeisque minimis rectis muniti. 

 StipidcE lineares, glanduloso-ciliataB, ex floribus propiores latiores, et demum foliis de- 

 ficientibus in bracteas ellijiticas acuminatas immutatse. Foliola 5 rarius 7, par superius et 

 folioliim impar ceteris majora, elliptica, vel potius in meis speciminibus oblongo-ellip- 

 tica, duplicato-serrata, utriiique hirsuta^ mollissima, siibtus praecipue marginem ver- 

 sus glandulosa. Pedunculi 1 — 3, setis debilibus plerumque armati, interdum toti gla- 

 bri, bracteas longitudine subsequantes. Rcceptaculum ellipticum, nunc setis aliquot 

 fortioribus quam quae in pedunculo munitum, nunc glaberrimum. Cali/cisjhliola sub- 

 pinnata, triangulari-lanceolata, petala vix aequantia, glandulosa, fructiis erecta. 

 Flores concavi ; petala alba, maculis sanguineis gemmae persistentibus. Slyli inclusi, 

 stigmatibus convexis. Fruclics niagnus, subglobosus, ruber. 



Found by Mr. Winch in hedges in Durham and Northuniber- 

 ]and. Engl. Bot. Banks of the Dee, and on the side of Loch 

 Tay, Mr. G. Anderson. Friar's Wood, near Ingleton. 



If I were not fortified by the authority of Sir J. E. Smith and of 

 Mr. Borrcr, I should hardly venture to describe as a distinct spe- 

 cies a plant so nearly approaching to some varieties of R. tomen' 

 tosa. The calyx-leafits, indeed, though always in some degree 

 pinnate, are never, as far as I have observed, completely fur- 

 nished with offsets on each division as they are in that plant. In 

 this respect it varies exceedingly, approaching however nearer to 

 the compound calyx of R. tomentosa than to the simple one of 

 R. villosa. On this character, such as it is, the specific distinc- 

 tion must principally rest; for the shape of the receptacle and 

 leaflets, though sufficiently distinct in some specimens, still va- 

 ries so much in this tribe of Roses that I dare not place much 

 reliance on it. Still less can I depend on the greenness and 

 harshness of the pubescence, the characters by which this Rose is 



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