374 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



smooth, longer than the bracteas. Tube of the calyx smooth, 

 globular, sometimes depressed, sometimes a little elongated j 

 segments of the limb very long and narrow, each with a lanceo- 

 late leafy point; their base ovate; their inner surface and 

 edges densely downy ; one or two of them sometimes bearing 

 a few linear marginal appendages. Petals broad, concave, 

 light crimson, or purplish, rather shorter than the calyx ; their 

 claws pale and veiny. Stam. short, yellow. Styles still shorter, 

 very hairy, with smooth, blunt, green stigmas. Fruit globose, 

 rarely tapering at the base, the size of a white currant, of a 

 reddish, orange-colour. The flowers, even in the double va- 

 riety, have very little scent, though some writers compare them 

 to Cinnamon. 

 This Rose may possibly be wild in the place above mentioned, 

 as it grows in most parts of Europe. It is scarcely known in 

 gardens, except with double flowers. The bristles, first no- 

 ticed by Mr. Woods, are hardly to be seen except on fresh 

 specimens. The prickles are always more or less deflexed, 

 sometimes a little hooked, as described in R. fcecundissima of 

 authors. The second specimen in the Linneean herbarium, 

 mentioned by Mr. Lindley, has double flowers, and by its 

 ticket appears to have come from a garden, not from a wild 

 Swedish plant. I cannot find any difl'erence between the R. via- 

 jalis, the mutica of Fl. Dan., and the cinnamomea, any more 

 than between these and the cinerea and turbinella of my la- 

 mented friend Swartz, who was latterly inclined to make a 

 superabundant number of species of Roses. I have them from 

 himself, as well as those of Dr. Afzelius. The editors of the 

 Flora D.mica did not always see specimens of their plants, and 

 one of them has therefore been deceived by the drawing of ^ 688, 

 to define the footstalks synooth. He has also misquoted synonyms 

 of J. Bauhin and Haller which belong to R. alpina. 



2. R. rubella. Red-fruited Dwarf Rose. 



Flower-stalks generally without bracteas, bristly, like the 

 prickly stem and simple caljrx. Fruit globose. Prickles 

 straight, scattered. Leaflets elliptical or roundish, 

 smooth, with mostly simple serratures. 



R. rubella. Engl. Bot. v. 36. t. 2521 . Comp. 7S. Woods Tr. of L. 

 Soc.v. 12. 177. 



On the sandy sea coast. 



Sent from Northumberland by Mr. Winch. 



Shrub. July. 



Stem bushy, 2 or 3 feet high, round, branched, spreading, 

 beset with straight, very slender prickles, various in length, 

 intermixed with more numerous, smaller, glandular-tipped 

 bristles, such as occur plentifully on the footstalks, ribs of the 



