ROSA — POTERiUM. 297 



Rosa micrantha Smith. English type. Native. Area 

 876.4. Range 0-250. In Upper Swaledale in several places 

 about Satron and Gunnerside. In Wensleydale in Bear Park 

 near the waterfalls; F. A. Lees. Hedges on the north side of 

 the Wharfe at Thorp Arch ; S. Hailstone ! In Cleveland in 

 Mulgrave Woods and hedges at Sandsend. Glen below Kilton 

 Castle, 1881. R. inodora as a plant of Noith Yorkshire is 

 quite doubtful. 



Rosa rubiginosa L. English type. Native. Area 9 8 . 

 5.32. Range 0-150. Rare in woods and perhaps introduced 

 in some of its stations. In Swaledale in Marske Woods. 

 Hedges at Forcett and near the Tees west of Gainford. In the 

 Central Valley at Sandhutton and between Yarm and High 

 Worsall. Hedges between Pickering and Kirkby-Moorside. 

 Cultivated in gardens up to 350 yards. 



Rosa canina L. British type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-450. Much the commonest Rose of the hedges and 

 thickets of the low country, ascending in iVrkengarthdale to 

 Copperthwaite Scars. We have in North Yorkshire nearly all 

 the forms that occur anywhere in Britain. 



Rosa arvensis L. English type. Native. Area general. 

 Range 0-150. Frequent in thickets and hedge-rows, the most 

 plentiful in the lower part of some of the calcareous dales, as, 

 for instance, Ryedale about Rievaulx and Helmsley. R. systyla 

 is reported by R. Spruce from hedges in the Vale of Pickering 

 near Kirkby Misperton. 



Sanguisorba officinalis L. Intermediate type. Native. 

 Area general. Range 0-500. Common in grassy places, 

 ascending in Teesdale to the falls of Maize Beck. 



Poterium Sanguisorba L. English type. Native. Sub- 

 xcrophilous. Area general. Range 0-550. One of the most 

 widely distributed of the species which have the Xerophilous 

 restriction. It is frequent in the limestone country both on the 

 west and east of the Central Valley, and ascends to the Main 

 Limestone of Gilmanscar, Copperthwaite Moor, and Askrigg 



.Sept. 1889. 



