220 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



when green, ripening early in September. Sepals erect-spreading 

 after the petals fall, and usually adhering till after the fruit 

 changes colour. 



9. Hosa celerata. Baker. 



Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 99. 



Stems arching ; prickles stout, hooked. Leaflets broadly ovate, 

 thin, firm, green and glabrous above, paler and hairy on the 

 principal veins beneath, shallowly doubly serrate, the secondary 

 serratures gland-tipped ; petioles shortly pubescent, with numerous 

 short gland-tipped seta3. Stipules and bracts glabrous, ciliated 

 with gland-tipped set^. Pedicels naked, as long as the bracts. 

 Styles hairy. Fruit subglobose, smooth, turning scarlet early in 

 September. Sepals leaf-pointed and copiously pinnate, glabrous in 

 the middle on the outside, and ciliated with gland-tipped setge, 

 remaining until after the fruit changes colour. 



Thickets in Holywell Dean, Northumberland. 



10. Rosa coriifolia. Frks. 



Plate CCCCLXXII.* 



Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 98. 



K. bractescens, Woods, et Auct. Angl. 



Stems arching ; prickles rather slender, very slightly curved. 

 Leaflets roundish-ovate, thick, greyish green and hairy above, 

 paler and softly pubescent beneath, shallowly serrated, without 

 gland-tipped seta3 ; petioles woolly, nearly destitute of gland-tipped 

 seta3, and with few prickles. Stijiulcs and bracts densely pubescent 

 beneath, with scarcely any gland-tijijied seta? on the margin. 

 Pedicels naked, extremely short, much shorter than the bracts. 

 Styles woolly. Sepals leaf-pointed, and copiously pinnate, naked 

 on the outside but usually tomentose towards the edges, nearly 

 destitute of gland-tipped setae at the edges. 



TJlverstone, Lancashii'c (Mr. Woods), and Castleton of Bracmar 

 (Mr. II. C. Watson), aud a less hairy form is plentiful in hedges at 

 Thirsk, North Yorkshire. 



A specimen collected by Winch, near Newcastlc-on-Tyne, has, 

 according to Mr. Baker, the large bracts and short peduncles of 



* The plate is taken from a drawing made by Mrs. Baker from Mr. Watson's 

 specimens, which unfortunately perished in the disastrous fire which took place on 

 Mr. Baker's premises on 9th May, 1864. 



