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irregularly serrated, hairy, particularly beneath on the 

 ribs, more sparingly on the upper surface, which is 

 greener. The serratures are often tipt with a gland, more 

 commonly only gangrened. Footstalks downy, with a 

 few brownish glands intermixed, and 1 or 2 prickles on 

 the inferior surface. Stipulas linear, pointed, smooth, 

 fringed with hairs and numerous glands. Bracteas smooth, 

 ovate-lanceolate, fringed like the stipulas, the outer one 

 generally as long as the fruit, sometimes with a leaf-like 

 point, which rises much above it. Flower-stalks smooth, 

 rather short, generally 3 together. Tube of the calyx 

 smooth, nearly globular, sometimes elliptical ; segments 

 of the limb spreading, downy, and glandular, 2 of them 

 copiously pinnate. Petals light red, white at the base, 

 obcordate, emarginate. Styles prominent, hairy. Stig- 

 mas forming a round hairy head. Fruit red, smooth, el- 

 liptical. Calyx deciduous. This seems a very distinct 

 species, whose identity with the R. dumetorum of SMITH, 

 I have been enabled to ascertain through the kindness of 

 Mr WINCH. The R. dumetorum of Eng. Botany is quite 

 a different plant. 



7. R> Forsteri, fruit elliptical, smooth., like the aggregate flower- 

 stalks ; calyx copiously, and somewhat doubly pinnate ; prickles 

 scattered, conical, hooked ; leaflets simply serrated, smooth 

 above, ribs hairy beneath. 



Hob. Ancroft dean. June, July. 



Mr WINCH informs me, our plant agrees with a specimen 

 he has from FORSTER; and it corresponds with SMITH'S 

 description. After an attentive examination of it in a 

 growing state, I am satisfied that it cannot be kept dis- 

 tinct from R. canina. 



8. R. caning fruit ovate, smooth or somewhat bristly, like 

 the aggregate flower-stalks ; calyx pinnate, deciduous ; prickles 

 strongly hooked ; leaflets simply serrated, pointed, quite smooth. 

 Common Dog -Rose. 



Hob. Hedges and thickets. June, July. 



Flowers pale pink, clustered, soon out-topped by the lead- 

 ing shoots of the shrub. " It were to small purpose to 

 vse many words in the description thereof; for even chil- 

 dren with great delight eat the berries thereof when they 

 be ripe, make chaines and other pretty gewgawes of the 

 fruit : cookes and gentlewomen make tarts, and such like 



