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Brief Remarks on some indigenous Roses. 245 
Withering), not clustered as represented in English 
Botany. 
No.5. Rosa villosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.1069. FI. Brit. 2. 535. 
Eng. Bot. 583. 
Sowerby’s drawing is a good representation of the flower 
of this rose, as it may be observed in the rich country 
about Darlington. Near Newcastle the shrub becomes 
less luxuriant, and the petals are of a deeper hue. 
No.6. Rosa mollis. Eng. Bot. 2459. 
R. villosa, B. mollissima. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 1070. Fi. 
Brit, 2. 538. 
Rosa sylvestris folio molliter hirsuto, fructu rotundo 
glabro, calyce et pediculo hispidis. Dall in Dill. Raii 
Syn. 478. 
When R. villosa grows on sterile soil or in a bleak si- 
tuation, it assumes the stunted habit and full red flower 
of the specimen figured by Sowerby, aud mentioned 
by Dillenius. This | consider as nothing but a variety 
of the preceding species. Near Newcastle it is ex- 
tremely common, its fruit varying from perfect smooth- 
ness to a considerable degree of roughness, and the 
bush altering in mode of growth according to soil and 
exposure, 
No. 7. Rosa tomentosa. Fl. Brit. 2.539. Eng. Bot. 999. 
This rose, which is by no means rare in the north, and 
forms one of the chief ornaments of the woods and 
hedges south-west from Newcastle, appears to be ill- 
understood by the Swedish botanists. The figure in 
English Botany represents the plant as flourishing in 
the south of England, and even about Darlington; but 
surely the prickles are too much hooked.—With us the 
shrub is less robust, its fruit smaller, and petals of a 
darker red. 
No. 8. Rosa rubiginosa, Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 1073. Fl. Brit. 2. 
340. Eng. Bot. 991. 
Though the sweet-briar may occasionally be met with on 
our ballast hills or in hedges, I suspect it is not indige- 
nous in these places, but has been imported from the 
south of England in one instance, and carried from 
gardens by birds in the other,—the chalk-hills of Sur- 
rey, Kent, &c, appearing to be the original habitat of 
the Eglantine. : 
No.9. Rosa scabriuscula. Eng. Bot. 1396. 
Rosa sp. nov. Winch. Guide, vol. 1. 48. vol. 2. pref. 5, 
Calyx permanent; fruit globose, bristly. 
Var. 8. Fruit smooth. 
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