214 Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 



aculeata, serraturis insequalibus, plerumque divaricatis, irregulariter serrulatis. Pe- 

 dunculi 1 — 8, glabri, bracteis breviores. Receptaculum anguste ellipticum, fuscum, 

 glabrum. Ca/ycisyb/ioZa glabra, triangulari-elliptica, acuminata, pinnis lanceolato-li- 

 nearibus, inciso-serratis. Floras rubescentes, planiusculi. Styli inclusi, stigmattbus 

 planiiisculis. Fructus ellipticns, coccineus, nitidus. 



Comraon in hedges and bushy places. 



|8. 7iitens. The leaves, instead of the gray waxy appearance they 

 generally have, are of a shining green : this variety has fre- 

 quently a few setas on the fruitstalk. Mr. Borrer finds this 

 character also in «. I have observed one specimen further 

 remarkable by its straggling habit and small leaflets, with 

 long ragged-looking serratures ; perhaps it ought rather to be 

 considered as belonging to the variety y. In hedges. 



7. A dwarf variety of very lax and feeble growth, which is occa- 

 sionally met with in waste ground and on way-sides : the leaf- 

 lets are rarely more than five, elliptico-lanceolate, or even 

 sometimes lanceolate; the serratures are narrower and longer. 

 It is remarkable that in this variety, while the leaflets are 

 always narrower than in «, the leafits are generally wider. 



3. is a very large plant, which has the fruit and even the imma- 

 ture receptacle nearly globose ; the calyx-leafits are also fre- 

 quently glandular. At Settle and other places in the moun- 

 tainous district of the North of England. 



£ A variety with very small flowers, and a habit not unlike that 

 of R. ccesia^ At Settle. 



^. A large but slender plant, with flowers always solitary. Re- 

 ceptacle broadly-elliptical. Road-side near Furness Abbey. 



I am disposed to refer to this species JR. micrantha. Lam. et 

 D£c. EL Fr. vi. 53?. The name I have adopted is derived from 



the 



