384 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



occasionally it is quite smooth. Two segments of the very 

 bristly limb, and one side of a third, copiously pinnate, with long, 

 leafy, acute, toothed and glandular leaflets, as abundant as in 

 any species whatever. PetoZ* light red, white in their lower half ; 

 sometimes white blotched with red. Fruit scarlet, generally 

 bristly, broadly elliptical, retaining the limb of the calyx, either 

 spreading or reflexed, till quite ripe, when the latter usually 

 falls off. 



jS appears at first sight a very distinct species, whose leaves are 

 greener, and more harsh, nearly smooth except the ribs, which 

 are hairy. Such at least is ray Suffolk plant, first noticed in 

 company with Sir T. Cullum and Mr. Crowe, the calyx-tubs of 

 which is remarkably slender. This 1 had in view in the descrip- 

 tion of Engl. Bot., though the figure was drawn from a plant of 

 Mr.Winch's, then considered the same. The latter has a rounder 

 calyx-tube, and the Icajlets, except their ribs, are quite smooth. 

 Another specimen from this gentleman precisely accords with 

 those from Bury ; while Mr. Woods describes those he received 

 from Mr. Winch as " hoary with a velvety down, and exceed- 

 ingly soft on both sides ; perhaps even more so than is usual in 

 any other species." So 1 find them, 'and these therefore can 

 only belong to R. tomentosa. They prove how liable its pubes- 

 cence is to vary. 



R. tomentosa was originally detected in the neighbourhood of Nor- 

 wich about 45 years ago, and first published in Fl. Brit, under 

 that name, which Mr. Lindley has very properly retained, in 

 spite of the doubtful claim of a far less applicable one, of Ger- 

 man origin, mollissima. John Bauhin's synonym, though of late 

 neglected, cannot be disputed. 



Mr. Woods enumerates l.'i varieties, or different appearances, of 

 this species, two of which I venture to refer to the following. 

 To the rest I could add several, for 1 have seen this plant, on 

 removal to a rich and damp garden, assume so rank and prickly 

 a habit, as to be scarcely recognised, and even in its various 

 wild situations the pubescence varies greatly. Still 1 find no con- 

 siderable alteration in the divisions of the calyx, nor in the el- 

 liptical shape of its tube. 



*** Branches •without bristles. Prickles hooked., compressed. 



Styles distinct. 



10. R. subglohosa. Round-headed Rose. 



^\x!\co\cLa. ^^"'^ globular, abrupt, somewhat brLstly. Calyx copiously 

 . . pinnate. Prickles conical, hooked, compressed. Leat- 



Trc(.,/V,-/i,2^ft7 lets elliptical, acute, downy on both sides. 



.' R. tomentosa £ and ij. Woods Tr. of L.Soc. v. \2.20\. 



■ r'^/^R. sylvestris folio molliter hirsuto, fructu rotundo glabro, calyce et 

 pediculo hispidis. Dill, in Raii Syn. 478. 



