388 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. " 



prickles thereabouts are not so long a6 in rubiglnosa ; segments 

 of the limb not very much pinnate, falling off as the fruit ripens. 

 The latter is scarlet, sometimes quite smootli, retaining its 

 oval foim, with a short neck, and commonly much smaller than 

 the hips oi ruhiginosa . 

 Mr. Lindley, partly as it seems at the persuasion of Mr. Lyell, 

 makes this a variety of the last ; but Mr. Borrer, Mr. Sabine 

 and Mr. Woods agree with me in keeping it distinct. Till we 

 have more experience in the specific characters of this genus, 

 as no one can be competent, in difficult cases, to comi; to an ab- 

 solute conclusion, it is safer to discriminate than to confound. 



13. R. Borreri. Downy-stalked Dog Rose. 



Fruit elliptical, smooth. Flower-stalks aggregate, liairy. 



Calyx copiously, often doubly, pinnate, deciduous. 



Prickles hooked. Leaflets ovate, doubly serrated, hairy, 



without glands. 

 R. Borreri. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. t). 1 2. 2 1 0. mncit Geogr. Dis- 



trih. 45. 

 R. dumetorum. Engl. Bot.v.ZG. t.2b7d ; but not, it seems, of 



Persoon. 

 R. rubiginosa 3-. Lindl. Ros. 88. 

 /3 R. rubiginosa inodora. Hook. Lond. t. 1 1 7.^ 



In hedges and thickets. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stem from G to 10 feet high, round, firm, with numerous, spread- 

 ing, smooth, leafy branches. Prickles solitary or in pairs under 

 the branches and leaves, strongly hooked and deflexed, each 

 • with a large oblong base. Footstalks downy. Leaflets mostly 

 7, broadly ovate, acute, doubly serrated, deep green, shining, 

 minutely hairy, fiat ; the under side rather paler, most hairy 

 about the ribs, destitute of glands, as well as of scent. Stipulas 

 linear, pointed, glandular at the edges, but not at the back ; 

 the uppermost changed to ovate, pointed, slightly hairy hracteas, 

 fringed with stalked glands. Flower-stalks aggregate, some- 

 times numerous, seldom solitary, mostly downy or bristly, 

 rarely quite naked. Tube of the calyx elliptical, green or 

 brownish, smooth and naked j segments of the limb rather short, 

 spreading, deciduous, distantly fringed with stalked glands ; 

 two of them very copiously pinnate ; with crowded, broad, 

 partly compound, acute, smooth subdivisions. Petals flesh- 

 coloured, or light red, rather small. Fruit deep scarlet, occa- 

 sionally almost globular, with a short neck ; sometimes rather 

 obovate. 



Dr. Panzer of Nuremberg has sent this species for R. sepium of 

 Rau, Enum. Rosar. 90, which Mr. Lindley considers as briic- 

 tescens of Woods, and a variety of canina. 



