ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. S89 



JR. Borreri has been found near Edinburgh, by the very excellent 

 botanist whose name it bears, with more hoary leaves than usu- 

 ally occur in England. The small-leaved variety /3, figured in 

 Professor Hooker's t.\\7, is referred hither by that writer, en- 

 tirely on Mr. Lindley's authority, as a scentless Sweet Briar. I 

 have seen no specimen, but the excellent figure answers to 

 R. Borreri, except the smallness of tiie leaflets, which are not 

 half the size of mine or Mr. Woods's specimens, or of Engl. 

 Bot. t. 2579. 



14. R. casta. Glaucous-leaved Rose. 



Fniit ellijjtical, smooth. Flower-stalks smooth, solitary. 



Calyx distantly and sparingly pinnate. Prickles hooked, 



unitbrm. Leaflets elliptical, somewhat doubly serrated, 



glaucous ; hairy beneath, without glands. 

 R, cffisia. L'«e/. Bot. v. 33. t. 2367. Conip. 78. iroods Tr. of L. 



Sue. v.]2.2\2. 

 R. canina pubcscens. Afzel. Ros. Suec. tent. 1. 2. Sims 8{ Kon. 



Ann. V. 2.211. 



In the highland valleys of Scotland, but very rare. 



At Taymilt in Mid Lorn, Argylshire j and in Strath Tay, between 

 Dunkeld and Aberfeldie. Mr. Borrer. By the side of Loch Tay. 

 Mr. George Anderson. 



Shrub. Jul//. 



A compact bush, about 4 or 5 feet high, remarkable for the very 

 glaucous hue of its foliage, young branches, and calyx. The 

 stem and main branches are of a purplish brown, smooth, fur- 

 nished with pairs of strongly-hooked, light-brown prickles, un- 

 der the leaves and young shoots, each prickle having an oblong- 

 elliptical base, often longer than itself. Leaflets .5 or 7, elliptical, 

 acute, their serraturcs slightly notched and glandular, as well 

 as unequal, but not very regularly or distinctly double j the 

 upper side glaucous, smooth, rarely downy ; under hairy, es- 

 pecially about the rib and veins. Footstalks downy, and in some 

 degree glandular, but scarcely prickly. Stipidas oblong, acute, 

 pale, downy, fringed with glands ;' the uppermost gradually 

 broadest ; those at the summit changed for ovate pointed brac.teas. 

 Flower-stalks in all the specimens 1 have seen always solitary, 

 smooth and naked, shorter than the hracteas. Mr. Borrer says 

 they are sometimes in pairs. Fl. of an uniform, bat very beau- 

 tiful, carnation hue, occasionally white. Tube of the calyx el- 

 liptical, naked, very glaucous, subsequently brownish; seg- 

 ments of tlie limb eitli-r smooth at the back or glandular; 

 one of them pinnate, with a few narrow, distant, sometimes 

 slightly glandular, leaflets. If I am right in the synonym of 

 Dr. Afzelius, which on the most careful scrutiny I see no reason 



