CLASS XII. ORDER III.J ROSA< 7QQ 



by Koch iu his Synopsis Florae Germanicse et Helveticae, to which he 

 also adds R. scabriuscula, R. keterophylla, R. pulchella of Woods, the 

 R. mollis and R. subgloboso, Smith ; and we think the R. sylvestris, 

 Lind. Synopsis, may be placed amongst them. 



9. R. Wilso'ni, Borr. (Fig. 805.) Wilson's Rose. " Prickles crowded, 

 unequal, straight, intermixed with setae ; leaflets simply serrated, hairy, 

 their disk eglandulous ; calyx simple ; fruit ovato-urceolate." 



Borrer in English Botany, Supp. t. 2725. Hooker, British Flora, 

 ed. 3 v. i. p. 231. 



"About three feet high, of slender habit, well furnished with very 

 unequal straight prickles and glandular setae. Leaflets seven or nine, five 

 towards the flowers, ovate, somewhat cordate, blunt, (not acuminate), 

 simply serrated, slightly hairy on both sides, the ribs beneath rather 

 more so, the mid-rib beset with glands, like the petiole, which bears 

 also a few small prickles, which are often falcate, or almost uncinate 

 stipules, copiously fringed with glands, widened upwards, pointed, and 

 somewhat divaricating. Flowers usually three together, bracteate, the 

 primordial bractea a pair of enlarged stipules, with a terminal leaflet, 

 the others simple, ovate or lanceolate, acute. Peduncles setose. Calyx 

 tube broadly ovate, (almost globular), with a short neck, sparingly 

 setose, sometimes naked; segments persistent, copiously setose, and 

 glandulous, shorter than the petals, with a slightly dilated point, and 

 occasionally a capillary pinnae. Petals rather large, pink. Stylet 

 included, hairy. Stigmas forming a round protuberant mass. Fruit 

 scarlet." 



Habitat. On a declivity by the Menai, near Bangor, Mr. W. Wilson. 



Shrub ; flowering in June and July. 



This plant we only know from cultivated specimens, and though they 

 in almost every particular agree with the description given of them, we 

 have still thought it better to give the description of Mr. Borrer, 

 from Hooker's British Flora, ed. 3, where he further observes " In 

 describing this remarkable Rose, which I have never seen growing, I 

 have availed myself of the remarks of its accurate discoverer." (Mr. 

 W. Wilson). He observes further that " it is as plentifully supplied 

 with prickles as R. spinosissima, and that the foliage soon acquires a 

 reddish tinge, which gives to the bush a remarkable and somewhat 

 elegant aspect. On the flowering twigs I find the prickles scattered, 

 small, slightly curved, and richly tinged like the twigs themselves and 

 the flower stalks and calyx, with purple." Lindley, in the second 

 edition of his Synopsis, page 323, remarks that " This seems one of 

 the endless varieties of R. mollis (R. villosa), approaching Doniana 

 (R. Sabini, fi. Doniana,) in the presence of setae on its branches, and 

 proving among other things that R. involuta, Doniana, Sabiniana, 

 Sec., are all one and the same natural species." 



4. RuBioiNO'S. Prickles very unequal, sometimes like bristles, very 

 rarely absent. Leaflets ovate or oblong, usually fragrant and 

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