ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 379 



as well as accurate of botanists, who loved the science for its 

 own sake, and braved every difficulty in its service. He infused 

 the same spirit into his sons, who are living evidences of his 

 knowledge, and of his powers of instruction. 



6. K. gracilis. Tall Bristly Rose. 



Flower -stalks usually in pairs, bristly, often bracteated. 

 Branches, globular fruit, and simple calyx bristly. Larger 

 prickles curved, mostly two together. Leaflets doubly 

 serrated, hairy on both sides. 



R. gracilis. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 186. 



R. villosa. Engl. Bat. v. 9. t. 583 ; excluding the syn. and thefruit. 



In thickets in the north of England. 



Near Darlington. Mr. Robson. At Pooley bridge, Cumberland, as 

 well as between Keswick and Lorton. Mr. Woods. 



Shrub. Jubj. 



Stem 8 or 10 feet high, with scattered, dark brown, leafy branches, 

 bearing numerous bristles and small straight prickles, the former 

 being distinguished by their glandular tips only. The larger 

 and more genuine prickles are curved downwards, purplish, with 

 an oblong dilated base, and placed usually in couples, under the 

 origin of each young branch. None of these are exhibited in the 

 figure of Engl. Bot. Footstalks downy, with copious glandular 

 bristles, and a few very distinct hooked prickles. Letiflets 7 or 

 9, broadly elliptical, doubly and sharply serrated, the interme- 

 diate serratures glandular ; finely hairy on both sides, and of a 

 greyish green j the mid-rib glandular, and somewhat bristly. 

 Stipulas oblong-wedge-shaped, pale green, fringed with glands; 

 their points acute and spreading. Flower-stalks terminal, usually 

 in pairs, unequal, sometimes, according to Mr. Woods, 3 to- 

 gether, sometimes solitary, all beset with longish, straight, 

 reddish, glandular-tipped bristles, such as are more or less scat- 

 tered over the globular tube of the cah/x, which is seldom quite 

 destitute of them. Similar ones are plentiful on the linib of the 

 calyx, whose segments are almost uniformly simple, fringed at 

 the points with glandular bristles, and not longer than the co- 

 rolla. Petals slightly concave, of a fine pink, white at the base. 

 Ripe fruit not observed. 



Mr. Woods has shown great judgment in his account of this spe- 

 cies, which is certainly the R. villosa drawn in Engl. Bot., with the 

 fruit perhaps of some other species. But 1 must confess the Rose 

 I had in contemplation in the description, as well as in Fl. Brit., 

 was the R.sylvestris pomif era major, Batih. Pin. 484. R. porno 

 spinoso, folio hirsuio, Bauh. Hist, v 2. 38./. the common Apple 

 Rose, single or double, of our gardens ; which Hudson and every 

 British botanist, till lately, has without scruple taken for R. po- 



