206 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



truly solitary and being pale pink, also in the shape of the fruit, 

 and the pinnate sepals. If the form cordifolia really belong to this 

 species, I do not see how it can be kept distinct from R. Sabini ; 

 but I have only seen one specimen kindly sent by Mr. Baker, and 

 this, but for Mr. Baker's opinion, I should have had no hesitatioa 

 in referring to Wilsoni or Sabini rather than hibernica. 



Irish Burnet Rose. 



This Rose was discovered by Mr. John Teinpleton, in the county of Down, growing 

 ahimdantly about Belfast harbour ; he consequently became entitled to the reward of 

 £50 ofl'ered by the patrons of botany at Dublin ibr the discovery of a new Irish 

 plant. 



SPECIES IV.— ROSA WILSONI. Borrer. 



Plate CCCCLXIV. 

 Baker, in Nat. 18G4, p. 21. 



Prickles usually crowded, stout, straight or slightly curved, 

 unequal, passing gradually into aciculi and setae, which are nu- 

 merous. Leaflets oval or ovate, frequently sub-cordate at the base, 

 rather unequally but scarcely doubly serrate, hairy on the veins 

 and with scattered glands beneath, serratures occasionally gland- 

 tipped. Pedicels solitary, or 2 or 3 together, with bracts when more 

 than 1, thickly clothed with gland-tipped setae. Pruit erect, globular 

 contracted into a neck at the apex, with a few gland-tipped aciculi, 

 red. Sepals persistent, leaf-pointed, entire, with gland-tipped setoe 

 on the back. 



On the banks of the Menai Straits, near Bangor. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this plant I have only seen dried specimens, and, judging 

 from them, I should have called the plant a slight variety of P.. 

 Sabini, of which Mr. Baker is inclined to think it is a sub-species ; 

 the only dilFerence between the two being that the leaves are less 

 distinctly doubly serrate. 



JFllson^s Rose. 



SPECIES v.— R OSA SABINI. ( Woods), Baker. 



Plate CCCCLXV. 

 Baker, in Nat. 18G4, p. 18. 



Prickles somewhat crowded, stout, straight or slightly curved, 

 gradually passing into numerous aciculi and setre. Leaflets oval 

 or ovate, sub-cordate at the base, doubly serrate, sparingly hairy 

 above, densely so, and with scattered glands beneath, secondary ser- 

 ratures generally gland-tijiped. Pedicels solitary or 2 or 3 together, 



