228 Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 



larating effects of it. The Russians of the Volga prepare a spirit 

 from the flowers ; they likewise preserve them with sugar and ho- 

 ney. The leaves dried and infused in boiling water have been re- 

 commended as a substitute for tea. 



24. Rosa surculosa. 

 R. stylis distinctis, aculeis caulinis petiolinisque uncinatis, folio- 

 lis planis sinipliciter serratis glabris. 



Frutex octo-pedalis, laxus, habitu Rosam caninam vel potius i?. Eorreri inter et R. arvensem 

 refereus. Eami difFusi, atro-purpuiei vel intense fusci, juniores glaucescentes, nunc 

 copiose aculeati nunc fere inennes ; aculei fortissimi, uncinati, nunc binato-stipu- 

 lares, nunc solitarii, sparsi. Pelioli supra tantum sparse pilosi, alioquin glabri, acu- 

 leis fortibus uncinatis muniti. Stipulce spatulatse vel lineares, nunc serratae, nunc 

 basi glanduloso-ciliatse, nunc nisi apicem versus integerrimse, glabra;, interduni mar- 

 gine pilosae, eae floribus propiores latiores et demum foliis deficientibus in bracteas 

 ellipticas, acuminatas, inimutatse. Foliola 7, piir superius et foliolum inipar ceteris 

 majora, acie supraque nervo tantum pilis raris instructs, elliptica, vel subrotunda, acu- 

 minata, impar basi cordatum vel ovatum, serrata, subtus glabra, obscura, juniora pur- 

 purascentia. Pedunculi 1 — 24, hie illic setis sparsis, tenerrimis, pilisve muniti. 

 Receptaculum ovatum, fuscum, glabnim, disco convexo. Calycis foliola triangulari- 

 elliptica, acuta fere usque ad basin divisa, pinnis lanceolatis vel lineari-lanceolatis, 

 nervosis, integerrimis. Flares rubescentes. Slyli subporrecti, villosi ; stigmata in 

 globulum congesta. Fructus late ellipticus, ruber. 



About Albourne, Henfield, West Grinstead, and elsewhere in 

 Sussex. Mr. Borrer. Road-side between Hayes and Bromley 

 in Kent. 



/S. Surculi not so strong, redder; bush more compact; disk of 

 the receptacle flat. Near Stoke Newington. Only one 

 bush of this Rose has ever been observed ; but the habit of 

 the plant is very remarkable, and I had noticed it several 

 years before I began to pay any particular attention to this 

 genus. 



The only British spei;ies which can be mistaken for R. surculosa 



are 



