Mr. Woods on ihe British Species of Rosa. 19T^ 



of the calyx-lcafits appear also to be characters worthy of atten- 

 tion ; hut 1 have seen too little of it to be able to point out the 

 variations to which it is most subject. The size and habit of the 

 plant, the shape of the receptacle and that of the leaflets, will 

 distinguish this from the common Jpple Rose of the gardens; a 

 species with which it would be ridiculous to compare it, were it 

 not for the singular circumstance of the crenate petals — a cha- 

 racter which, as far as my knowledge extends, is not to be met 

 ■with in any other species of this genus. 



12. Rosa tomentosa. 



R. calycibus compositis, aculcis rectiusculis suba^qualibus, petalis 

 integerrimis, bracteis cUipticis, folioHs duplicato-scrratis. 



R. tomentosa. Fl. Br. ii. 539- Engl. Bot. xiv. t. 990. Lam. et 

 Dec. Fl. Fr. iv. 440. 



R. villosa. Hvds. Fl. Jiigl. ed. ii. p. 219- Lam. ct Dec. Fl. Fr. iv. 

 440. Roth Fl. Germ. i. 217- & ii. 556. 



R. Reynicri. Romer's Archiv. B. i. St. 2. p. 7- 



Rosa sylvestris pomifera major nostras. Raii St/nop. 455. 



Frutex 6 — S-pedalis. Rami vagi, fuseo-olivacei, aculeati; acuici rectiusculi, graciles^ 

 subbinato-stipulares : spaisi qiioque hie illic inveniuntur. Pel'wli tomentosi, sctosi,^ 

 aculeis(|iie levitcr falcatis niiuiiti. Slipulcc lineares, tomentosie, glandiiloso-ciliatae, 

 pagiiiaquc iiiferioie saepius glandiilosx ; eje floiibus etiam solitariis propiores latiores, 

 et deniuni fotiis deficientibus in bracteas ovatas acuniinatas immutatae. Foliola 5 v. 7, 

 par superiiis et foliolum impar ceteris majora, elliptica, apice triangulari-acuto, utrin- 

 que tomentosa, duplicato-serrata, subtus nunc tota superficie, nunc margine, venisve 

 tantum glaiidulosa. Pedunculi 1 — -), setis inaequalibus obsiti, bracteis breviores. He- 

 ceptacidiim plus minusve ellipticuin, subfuscum, setis laxius sparsis quam suntcalyx et 

 pedunculus munitum. CalycisfuUola triangulari-elliptica, acuminata, setosa, piiuiata,, 

 piunis inciso-scrratis, glandulosis, foliolum semipinnatum, pinnara solitariam tantum. 

 plerumque habet. Flores planiusculi ; pelala basi alba, margine integerrima, nunc in- 

 tense rubella, saepius rubescentia, nunc tota alba, nunc alba niaculis sanguineis externa- 

 iiotata, gemma sanguinea. Slyli inclusi, stigmatibus planiusculis vel parum convexis» 

 Fi'uclus late ellipticus, ruber. 



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