"224 Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 



iiiti. StipulcB liiieares, serratee, glabrae, eae flocibus propiores latiores, et deiiium fo- 

 liis deficientibus in bracteas ellipticas acumiuatas immutata;. Foliola 7, par superius 

 et foliolum impar ceteris majora, aiiguste elliptica, carinata, acumine parvo torto, ju- 

 niora lucesceutia quasi fiicata, glaberiima ; serraturie acuminatse, inaequales, sed nuu- 

 quam serie duplice. Pe(/«nc7//i glabeniini, in ramulis solitarii vel binati rarius terna- 

 ti, in siuculisplerumque quateriii. Receplaculum eWipUcum, fuscum, glabrum. Ca- 

 lycis fuliola triangulari-ovata, glabra ; pinnse lineari-lanceolatae, hie illic glanduloso- 

 incisse. Flores plcrumque rubcscentes, rarius aibi, ge,mma flore expauso aliquantu- 

 lum rubrior. Slyli inclusi, stigmatibus plauiusculis. Fructus ellii)ticus, glabei-rimus, 

 iiitidus, coccineus. 



Common in hedges and -bushy pflaces. 



Under this name our early botanists seem to have included 

 ^besides the present species) R. sarinentacea, R. Borreii, R. dume- 

 toriim, R. cdlUna, R. stirciilosa, and R.systijla of this essay. After 

 all these reductions it must still be considered as a very variable 

 Hose. I will attempt to enumerate the principal diflerences of 

 appearance to which it is subject. 



/S, cerea. The young leaves are covered with a waxy substance^ 

 and till rubbed are of a glaucous green entirely without 

 gloss. Root-shoots are more freely produced in this variety 

 than in «, and I have sometimes met with as many as eight 

 flowers in a cyme. The plant is eight or ten, and sometimes 

 •even fifteen, feet high ; the leaflets are broader, and the little 

 point at the end is always a little twisted ; a character which 

 may be observed in a slight degree in a, but is more conspi- 

 cuous here. Tliis is a very beautiful Rose, and more com- 

 mon than the preceding variety, from which I have drawn 

 my description, because R. canina has been almost always 

 described with shining leaves. 



These two varieties form the chief subdivisions of the spe- 

 tcies, and are marked by a difference of habit as well as co- 

 lour; 



