ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 385 



In hedges and thickets. 



Near Kingston-upon-Thames. Sherard. Near Tunbridge Wells, 

 and Down, in Kent. Mi: Woods. In Cambridgeshire. Rev. J. 

 Holme. Anglesea. Rev. H. Davies. 



Shrub. June, July. 



A stronger plant than the last, with stout round branches. Prickles 

 chiefly in couples under the leaves and younger branches, hooked, 

 conical, tapering gradually from a very broad base, all in some 

 degree compressed laterally, but particularly so on the young 

 vigorous shoots. Leaflets 5 or 7, elliptical and rather broad, 

 but more or less acute at each end ; hoary soft and downy on 

 both sides ; doubly serrated. Footstalks downy, prickly, slightly 

 glandular. Stipulas downy, acute, fringed with glands. Flower- 

 stalks from 1 to 8 or 9, the more numerous the shorter, beset 

 with glandular bristles, mostly bractcated with the uppermost 

 leafless stipulas, which are ovate-lanceolate, acute, glandular and 

 downy. Tube of the culyx large, tumid, globose, abrupt, often 

 slightly depressed, sometimes a little elongated at the base ; va- 

 riously besprinkled with bristles, but sometimes almost naked, 

 as Sherard and the late Mr. H. Davies observed. In a half-ripe 

 state its surface is corrugated, from the projection of the nume- 

 rous seeds, and has a purplish-olive hue. It then much resem- 

 bles a half-grown Bullace Plum. 1 have not seen the ripe hip, 

 nor ihejlowers. The segments of the limb of the calyx are ex- 

 panded, tawny, very rough with bristles or stalked glands, and 

 copiously pinnate in the manner of R. tomentosa. The whole 

 plant, except the prickles and calyx, bears more resemblance to- 

 villosa than tomentosa, and is particularly remarkable for its large 

 globular half-ripe /r!«(7. Whether it may be entitled to rank as 

 a species, must be determined by future inquiries, as we are 

 still but learners in the specific characters of this genus, 



1 1 . R. rubiginosa. Sweet Briar, or Eglantine. 



Fruit obovate, bristly towards the base. Calyx pinnate. 

 Prickles hooked, compressed; with smaller straighter 

 ones interspersed- I.,eaflets elliptical, doubly serrated, 

 hairy; clothed beneath with rusty-coloured glands. 



R. rubiginosa. Linn. Mant. 2. 564. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.2. 1073. Fl. 



Br. 540. Engl. Bot. v. 14. t.99]. Comp. 78. Hook. Lond. t.\\6. 



Scot. 1 57 a. Tilth. 4fiG. Hull 111. Jacq. Austr. t. 50. Ehrh. 



Arb. 75. Lindl. Ros. 86 a.. 

 R. Eglanteria. Linn. Sp. PI. eJ. 1. 491 ? Huds. 218. Woods Tr. of 



L. Soc. V. 12. 20G. Herm. Ros. 17. Afzel. Ros. Suec. tent. 1. 8, 



Sims SiKoji. Ann. V. 2. 213. 

 R. suavifolia. Li^htf. 262. Fl. Dan. t. 870. 

 R. n. 1103. Hall Hist. v.2. 39. 

 R. foliis subtus rubiginosis et odoratis. Hall. Enum. 350, excluding 



the var. y. ichich is R. tomentosa. 

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