200 Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 



■dence between ni}' varieties and the varieties or species of pre- 

 ceding authors. 



I have made several attempts to form such an arrangement of 

 the varieties of this Rose as might keep together those plants 

 whose natural character would point out the probability of iheir 

 constituting distinct species, and separate those whose habit 

 seemed to announce important differences. This attempt has 

 failed ; but I believe in the following list the order adopted is not 

 far from a natural series. If the botanist who knows the species 

 be able to assign to the specimens he collects their place among 

 these varieties, my object will be attained. 



I have here been obli2;cd to use the word hirsutus rather than 

 setosus to the arms of the peduncle and receptacle, in order to in- 

 clude the variety o, which has a downy peduncle without either 

 glands or setae, while yet it is characterized by a receptacle 

 smoother than the peduncle. 



jS. differs from « only in having the upper pagina of the leaf en- 

 tirely smooth. /Ambleside, Westmoreland. 



•y. Leaves smooth on both sides. By the road on the north side 

 of Loch Tay, Mr. W. Borrer. 



?. has a rounder leaflet than «, with scattered hairs on the upper 

 surface, and scattered hairs and glands on the under; the 

 nerves on the underside of the leaf are thickly clothed with 

 hairs somewhat spreading; petals white. The earliest flow- 

 ers in this variety frequently have the leafits of the calyx 

 entirely simple, nearly linear, and expanded at the end : 

 the latter peculiarity, where it exists in a remarkable degree, 

 though pointed out in English Hotany as a character of the 

 11. mollis of that work, appears to me a sure indication of an 

 unnatural or imperfect state of inflorescence. Dunkeld, 

 Mr. W. Borrer. 



i. Fruit 



