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therefore removed some suckers into the garden of my friend Mr. Robert 

 Jenkinson, at Norbiton in the neighbourhood, where they have blossomed in 

 the present year. The plant turns out to be a variety of Rosa Doniana, exactly 

 corresponding with that from Sussex, given by Mr. Borrer in the Supplement 

 to English Botany, folio 2601, except that the fruit is smooth, though the 

 calyx and peduncles are beset with small spines. It agrees exactly in every 

 point with the description above quoted from Ray, and therefore I have no 

 doubt that it is the Rose found by Sherard, and probably existing in the 

 identical locality where he discovered it. This is in the hedge of the first field 

 on the right side of the high road from London, in descending Kingston Hill, 

 after passing the George Inn. 



The description in Ray of this Rose is imperfect : had it been stated that 

 the fruit was small as well as globose, and that the branches bore both setae 

 and aculei, there would have been little difiiculty in assigning to it its proper 

 place in the genus ; and as in the time of Hudson, and indeed until a much 

 later period, Rosa spinosisslma was the only species of the setigerous section 

 described by British botanists, it would probably have been referred to that. 

 In the present day we have a transition of species from R. spinosissima through 

 R. rubella, R. involuta, R. Doniana, and R. Sabini, all belonging to the seti- 

 gerous Roses, and in the last species approaching to R. tomentosa of the 

 next section, which contains the species having straight aculei but without 

 setae. 



