ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 381 



acute marginal leaflets, and clothed, as well as fringed, like 

 those leaflets, with numerous short bristles, or stalked glands. 

 Pete/A- large, expanded, of a fine red. Ripe fruit, sent by Mr. 

 Hailstone, ovate, bright scarlet, bearing a few glandular bristles, 

 especially at the base, and crowned with the long, upright, 

 glandular, tawny segments of the calyx. 

 R. Sabini, honoured with the name of a most indefatigable and in- 

 telligent observer and cultivator of the whole genus, is perhaps 

 the finest British species, though hitherto overlooked. It con- 

 cludes the list of those which bear glandular bristles on the stem, 

 and is distinguished from all the rest by the pinnate, or com- 

 pound, segments of its calyx. 



** Branches without bristles. Prickles nearly straight. 



8. R. villosa. Soft-leaved Round-fruited Rose. 



Fruit globose, somewhat depressed, partly bristly. Calyx 

 slightly compound. Prickles nearly straight. Leaflets 

 rounded, bluntish, all over downy. 



R. villosa. Linn. Sp. PL 704 ? FL Suec. ed. 2. 463. Herb. Linn. n. 3. 



fVilld. V. 2. 1069 ? JVoods Tr. ofL. Soc. v. \2. \89. Fl. Br. 538 /3. 

 R. mollis. Engl. Bot.v.Sb. ^ 2459. Rees's Cycl. v. 30. w. 21. 



Comp. 78. Wbirh Geogr. Disirib. 42. 

 R. tomentosa (3. Lindl. Ros. 77. Hook. Scot. 156. 

 /3. R. heteroph\lla. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 195. 

 y. R. pulchella. Woods ibid. 196. 



In bushy, rather mountainous, situations, in Wales, Scotland, and 

 the north of England. 



Between Edinburgh and Ravelston wood, gathered in 1782. Found 

 also by Mr. G. Jackson in Scotland ; by the Rev. Hugh Davies 

 in Anglesea ; by Mr. Woods in Yorkshire and Cumberland} and 

 by Mr. Winch in Northumberland. 



^ near Edinburgh. Mr. Borrer. 



y near Ingleton, Yorkshire. Mr. Woods. 



Stem about 6 feet high, often much less, with scattered brown 

 prickly branches, rather glaucous when young, but neither 

 bristly nor hairy. Prickles scattered, pale, slender, nearly 

 straight. Leaflets 5 or 7, more or less rounded and obtuse, 

 often obovate, with double acute glandular serratures ; both 

 surfaces soft and downy, with a hoary aspect ; the under palest, 

 wrinkled, with prominent veins. Footstalks downy, bristly and 

 glandular, with several slightly curved prickles. Stipulas ob- 

 long, pointed, very downy, thickly fringed with minute, almost 

 sessile glands ; the upper pair or two often destitute of leaves, 

 and each pair united into a broad, ovate, acute, woolly braciea, 

 with a strong mid-rib. Flower-stalks 1 or 2 at the summit of 



