212 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



thinner in texture with fewer glands beneath and a rauch fainter 

 scent ; flowers smaller, about 1 incli across, pale rose-colour, calyx- 

 tube oblong-ovoid. Fruit regularly ovoid, contracted into a short 

 neck at the top. 



This plant appears to be truly distinct from R. rubiginosa, 

 receding in the direction of R. canina, which it resembles in its 

 mode of growth. 



Small-flowered Stceetbriar. 



SPECIES X.— ROSA SEPIUM. " Thuil." LindUy. 



Plate CCCCLXX. 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 67. 



Prickles numerous, large, curved, rather unequal, intermingled 

 with aciculi and occasionally a few gland-tipped setae. Leaflets 

 oval or elliptical, doubly serrate, dark green and slightly hairy 

 above, paler hairy and with numerous slightly fragrant glands 

 beneath. Pedicels short, with oval bracts and a few gland-tipped 

 aciculi. Styles hairy. Fruit narrowly urceolate-ovoid, scarlet 

 when ripe. " Sepals persistent" (Borrer), leaf-pointed, entire or 

 sub-pinnatifid, " hairy on tlie outside, and fringed with gland- 

 tipped teeth" (Borrer). 



At Bridport, Warwickshire, and possibly Heyford, Oxfordshire. 



England. Shrub. Summer. 



Of this plant I have only seen the specimens in Mr. Borrer's 

 herbarium at Kew, which are very imperfect. Mr. Baker has not 

 seen any specimens of the British plant. It appears more nearly 

 allied to R. rubiginosa in size, mode of growth, and armature of stem 

 than to any of the other British species : but the dried specimens in 

 Mr. Borrer's herbarium are very similar to those of R. micrantha in 

 habit, so that it might be very readily passed over as that species. 



Small-leaved Sweetbriar. 



French, Rose des Haies German, Zaun Rose. 



SPECIES XL— ROSA CRYPTOPODA. Baker. 

 Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 66. 



" Prickles somewhat unequal, the larger ones uncinate and 

 moderately robust below. Leaves 3 to 3J inches from the base to 

 the terminal leaflet, which is oval or elliptical, either rounded or 

 somewhat narrowed toward the base, and measiires rather more than 

 1 inch long by f inch wide. Leaflets greyish or glaucous-green. 



