234 Mr. Woods on the British Species of Rosa. 



The distinct, smooth, lengthened column of styles is alone suf- 

 ficient to distinguish it from every British Rose except R. systyla, 

 frohi which it may be known by its decumbent shoots and ex- 

 panded flowers ; the leaflets also are flatter, the serraturcs wider 

 apart, and the whole plant of a grayer colour. When once known, 

 their general appearance is so different that it is impossible to 

 confound them. Among the exotics, R. sempervlrens comes near 

 to it in habit, while in essential character it is easily separated by 

 its shining leaves and villous styles. R. seinpervirens of Roth, Fl. 

 Germ. i. 218. ii. 556 ; R. umbellata of Gmclin, Fl. Bad. Ah. ii. 425; 

 Lam. et Dec Fl. Fr. vi. 532, appears to me a very different spe- 

 cies : it is not an evergreen ; the fruit is globose or nearly so, and 

 the leaves are doubly serrated and glandular beneath. G mehn /. c. 

 remarks that it is allied to R. Eglanteria. It is perhaps as near 

 to R. Borreri as to any British Rose; but it is scarcely possible 

 to conceive how this could have been mistaken for t. 246 of the 

 Hortus Elthamensis, the only plate referred to by Linnsus, and 

 clearly pointing out his plant. 



R. semperftorens is another plant of this family, and, unless the 

 distinct styles of these Roses should make it necessary to separate 

 them, R. indica. It will also contain R. moschata, E. multifiora, 

 and R. sinica. Some Roses from China, of which specimens exist 

 in the Banksian Herbarium, will probably form another family 



allied to this. 



The hip of this species has a finer flavour than that of any 

 other British Rose ; that of R. sijstyla does not much difter in this 

 respect. 



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