Rosa.] ROSACJELE. 19 1 



t wig-s are occasionally unarmed, but have more usually binate uncinate 

 prickles near the base of the haves, and others scattered, varying in 

 size and curvature. Leaflets flat, or often concave, pale bright green, 

 more or less hairy, ovate, or broadly elliptical, or often almost round, 

 occasionally narrower and more pointed, but scarcely tapering to the 

 base ; sprinkled copiously beneath, on the edges and on the petioles, 

 with fragrant viscid glands, which are found also on the backs and 

 edges of the stipules. Peduncles, and often the calyx-tube, beset with 

 setce, of which those at the base of the latter are usually larger; seg- 

 ments setose and glandulose, with a lengthened leafy point and narrow 

 lanceolate pinnae, spreading almost at right angles, 'with gland-pointed 

 teeth. Petals deep pink, equal to the calyx, or rather shorter. Styles 

 included, slightly hairy ; stigma scarcely protuberant. Fruit changing 

 first to yellow then to orange-red, its substance thin, scarcely pulpy, 

 and almost insipid when ripe ; when in bunches the primordiaf is pear- 

 shaped, the secondary obovate, but less tapering at the base ; the others 

 elliptical. The fragrance of the leaves is compared to that of ripe 

 apples. Borrer. Mr. Templeton was of opinion that our wild sweet- 

 briar is different from the plant sold under that name in the nur- 

 series. 



2. Leaves eglandulose. 

 a. Styles distinct, included or nearly so. 



13. R. canina, Linn. Common Dog Rose. Prickles uni- 

 form, hooked ; leaves naked or slightly hairy, their disk eglan- 

 dulose; calyx-segments fully pinnate, deciduous; styles not 

 united ; shoots assurgent. Br. Fl. 1. p. 236. 



. Leaflets naked, carinate ; serratures simple. R. canina, 

 Woods. E. Fl.v. ii. p. 394. 



a. green. . Woods. R. canina, E. Bot. t. 992. 



b. grey. ft. Woods. 



ft. sarmentacca. Leaflets naked, carinate; serratures com- 

 pound. R. sarmentacea, Woods. E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2595. R. 

 canina, FL Lond. 



a. green. ft. Woods. R. sarmentacea, Swartz. 



b. grey. a. Woods. R. glaucopJiylla, Winch. 



7. surculosa. Leaflets naked, flat ; serratures simple. R. sur- 

 culosa, Woods. R. venosa, Swartz. R. canina, ft. E. FL 



, green, ft. Woods. 



b. grey. a. Woods. 



S. dumetornm. Leaflets more or less hairy, flat. 



a. hairy on both sides. R. dumetorum, " Thuil." Woods, 

 I.e. p. 217. E. FL v. ii. p. 292. Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 

 2010. 



e. Forsteri. Leaflets more or less hairy, not flat. 7?. collina, 

 Woods, I.e. p. 219. R. Forsteri, E. FL v. ii. p. 392. Borr. 

 inE. Bot. Suppl. *. 2611. 



Very common in hedges and thickets, All the varieties were 



