2 ROSACE^E. [Rosa 



found near Ballinascrecn, Co. Deny, by Mr. Moore. (3. and S. 1 found 

 near Glenarm, Co, Antrim. Fl. June, July. J? . The forms above men- 

 tioned are not so defined, but that connecting varieties may be found. 

 In all of them the ramification varies in denseness, and the shoots are 

 more or less arched or erect according- to the vigour of the plant ; the 

 prickles are not very numerous, hooked in various degrees and com- 

 pressed, and their base considerably dilated ; the leaflets vary in width, 

 their serratures, although scarcely compound, except in $., are mostly 

 irregular in size ; the bracteas vary in size ; the peduncle and calyx- 

 tube are most commonly naked, their setse, when present, feeble and 

 not numerous ; the calycine segments are free from glands, or more or 

 less copiously fringed with them : the styles are hairy ; the fruit is 

 coral red, or more scarlet, soft and pulpy when ripe, with a pleasant 

 somewhat acid taste. The principal vars., as they are now assumed to 

 be, are excellently described by Woods, who, the better to bring them 

 into notice,* distinguished them as species. I shall add a few remarks 

 on each. . grows six to ten feet high. It has usually lanceolate 

 leaflets, not rounded at the base, with a small, often twisted point, and 

 rather small acuminate serratures; petioles with almost straight 

 prickles, and mostly, not always, bare of hairs, except a few on the 

 channelled upper side ; peduncle and calyx-tube generally naked, the 

 latter more rarely setose than the former ; calyx-segments loosely pin- 

 nate, the pinnae, entire or toothed ; the disk of the receptacle some- 

 times very prominent ; styles included ; stigmas depressed ; fruit 

 oblong, generally tapering to each end, especially in the modification 

 a ; which is distinguished by its shining bright green leaves. Woods 

 describes his var. i. with a subglobose calyx-tube. /3. sarmentacea 

 resembles . in growth and habit, in styles and stigmas, in the disk of 

 the receptacle, and in the variation of the calyx-segments. In its ex- 

 treme state it appears well distinguished by its double serratures, the 

 points of which are often divaricate, but although often really double, 

 they are sometimes only apparently so from a fringe of glands ; and 

 every gradation in this respect is to be met with between it and . The 

 leaves vary much in width in different specimens, and the fruit in size. 

 It is mostly oblong, but Mr. Woods found it nearly globular in his 

 var. ., a North of England plant of large growth. ( My Glenarm spe- 

 cimens have the fruit similar.) In . y and S. the peduncle is some- 

 times naked, has sometimes soft hairs and sometimes feeble setcs. 

 y. surculosa approaches . in aspect, from the flatness of its leaves, 

 and, usually, their rounded figure. It has the serratures rather coarse ; 

 prickles on the petioles considerably hooked ; pinnce of the calyx 

 rather closely set and usually entire ; styles somewhat protruded, with 

 a round head of stigmas ; fruit short, elliptical or ovate, and some- 

 what urceolate. The green leaved modification, a., is of humbler growth 



* See his remarks in TV. of Linn. Soc. v. xii. p. 170. Lindley well ob- 

 serves, " Surely it is not surprising that this most common species of the 

 genus, whose fruit is scarcely ripe before it is devoured by small birds, and de- 

 posited by them in every possible variety of soil and situation, should frequently 

 assume features considerably different from its more general appearance." He 

 lias, however, separated as species, in his Syn. Br, Fl., several forms which he 

 had made vars. in his Monograph, 



