Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 207- 



ribus propiores foliis deficientibus in bractcas immutatae, quarum forma incerta. Fo- 

 liola 5 vel 7, par superius et foliolum impar ceteri* majora, elliptiea, supri hirta, subtus 

 pilis glandulisque odoriferis vestita, serraturis serrulatis glandulifcrisque. Pedun- 

 culi 1 — 11, setis inaequalibus obsiti, quarum paucae interdum faciem aculeonim aemu- 

 lant. Receplaculum priuiitivum obovatum, cetera picrumque elliptiea, omnia fusca, 

 setis sparsis munita ; setse longiores fortioresque aculeos simulantes reeeptaculi ad basin 

 iiiveniuntur. Ca/(/cij /o/(oZa triaiigulari-ovata, longius acuminata, pinnata; pinnae 

 lineari-lanceolatce, glanduloso-dentats. Flores concavi ; petala rubella. Sli/li in- 

 clusi ; stigmata convexa, villosa. Fruclus primitivus obovatus, ceteri obovati vel 

 elliptic!, omnes setis fortibus basi armati, rubri, demum maturitate sanguine!. 



In bushy places on a dry soil in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. Some- 

 times very abundant on the chalky banks in those counties. 



/S. is a variety in which the larger aculei are falcate, not unci- 

 nate ; and which seems to want the character arising from 

 the increased magnitude of the setae at the base of the ger- 

 men. This may possibly be a distinct species. 



The only Rose of our country which can be confounded with 

 this is R. micrantha ; and occasionally, when the latter grows in 

 exposed situations, or wlien R. Eglanteria is found (which is rarely 

 the case) in moist hedges, the eye will not immediately distinguish 

 them. In general, however, R. Eglanteria is a stiff, compact, up- 

 right bush ; R. micrantha, a loose straggling briar. Jn all cases the 

 central flower of the cyme, the one which is first expanded, is 

 followed by an obovate or pyriform fruit in the former species ; 

 while in the latter the fruit is at most only elliptical, and almost 

 always terminating in something of a neck, — a distinction first 

 pointed out in Engl. Bot., and well marked in the figures of the 

 two plants. Another equally constant character is derived from 

 the aculei, which in R. micrantha are in general merely binato- 

 stipulary,withafew others scattered without order on the branches 

 — all nearly of a size, and never intermixed with a multitude of 



smaller 



