204 EKGLISn BOTANY. 



rarely red. Sepals persistent, not leaf-pointed, entire, naked on the 

 back! 



Ou sandy sea-shores, heaths, and hills of clialk or trap rock. 

 Ilatlier common, and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer. 



A well-marked species, with much-branched very prickly stems, 

 1 to 4 feet higli. Leaflets rather rigid, g^ to f inch long, deep 

 green, paler beneath ; serratures deep, most of them simple, occa- 

 sionally one or two of them with an accessory tooth. Flowers large 

 for the size of the plant, IJ to 2 inches across, white, rarely pink. 

 Calyx-tube subglobose, glabrous, purple on one side; segments 

 shorter than the petals, entire, mostly erect in fruit. 



A form with ovate fruit has been gathered by Mr. Robertson in 

 Castle Eden Dean, Durham, and one with the peduncle and lower 

 part of the fruit with prickles and gland-tipped setae, at Brighton, 

 by Mr. Borrer. 



Common Burnet Hose. 



French, Hosier tres-epineux. German, Steinpeterleinblaitrige Rose. 



Tbis species is also known as the Pimpernel Rose, or Scotch Rose, and is frequently 

 cultivated in gardens. A great many varieties have been raised from it. The first 

 double variety was found in a wild state in the neighbourhood of Perth, and from this 

 one were produced above fifty others. All nursery-men have a large selection of this 

 particular rose. The ripe fruit of the wild kind is a favourite with children, and is not 

 injurious. The juice diluted with water dyes silk and muslin of a peach-colour, and 

 mixed with alum produces a deep violet hue. The plant is much liked by French 

 liorticulturiats, and they have no less than 123 distinct varieties. This was the only 

 Rose found by Sir W. Hooker iu Iceland. 



SPECIES II.— ROSA RUBELLA. Sm. 



Plate CCCCLXII. 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 17. 



Prickles few, scattered, slender, nearly straight, spreading, 

 nearly equal ; gland-tipped setsc very numerous. Leaflets roundish 

 or oval, simply and equally serrated, glabrous and without glands 

 on both sides. Pedicels solitary and without bracts, with numerous 

 aciculi and gland-tipped setae. Frviit drooping, urceolate-ovoid, 

 with gland-tipped setae near the base, red. Sepals persistent, 

 slightly leaf-pointed, entire, glandular on the back. 



On the sea-shore. Very rare, and probably now extinct. Found 

 on the Durham coast by Mr. AVinch. 



England ? Shrub. Early Summer. 



