Mr. Winch's Flora of Northumberland, §c. 



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In « gracilis the large prickles are somewhat falcate ; 

 this is all the difference I can observe in the plants 



f rowing between Keswick and Lorton, from which 

 Voods drew up his specific character, and li Sa- 

 bini the variety found in Heaton Dene. We have 

 not the elegant white variety with red glands, abun- 

 dant in Ennerdale. With y involuta, I am ac- 

 quainted by specimens and plants procured on the 

 shores of Arran by the late Mr. G. Don. It is 

 merely a dwarf variety from growing on the sands 

 of the sea coast, as is the case with Rosa spinossis- 

 sima and its petals are occasionally involute, which 

 in dry situations happens to most other roses. 



4. R. villosa. Soft-leaved round-fruited Rose. 

 Fruit globose, half as long as the segments of 



the calyx, bristly as well as the flower-stalks. 

 Prickles of the stem straight. Leaflets elliptic, 

 ovate, downy on both sides. Calyx permanent. 



R. villosa, Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 189; Winch, 

 Geog. PI. 2nd ed. No. 5 App. ; Hook. Br. Fl. 

 280; With. iii. 612; Var. 2, Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 

 811 j R. villosa, p Fl. Brit. ii. 538; R. mollis, 

 Eng. Bot. t. ii. 459; Winch, Geog. of Plants, 

 1st ed., 42 ; Lindlev, Br. Svn. 100 ; R. tomentosa, 

 Lindley, Mon. 77; Hook. Fl: Scot. 156; R. 

 villosa (S, mollissima, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1070. 



Very common about Newcastle, in hedges and woods. 



When this shrub grows on a sterile soil, or in a bleak 

 exposed situation, it assumes the stunted habit and 

 full red flower, as delineated in Eng. Bot. t. ii. 459. 

 The fruit varies from smoothness to a considerable 

 degree of roughness. Rosa villosa, of Dr. Swartz 

 and other foreign botanists, is the Apple Rose of 

 our gardens, which I believe is not indigenous in 

 Britain. Its fruit is very large, and leaves pointfd. 



5. R. tomentosa. Downy-leaved Dog Rose. 



Fruit ovate, bristly as well as the flower stalks. 

 Prickles of the stem slightly curved. Leaflets 

 doubly serrated, ovate, downy on both sides. 

 Divisions of the calvx permanent. 



Eng. Bot. t. 990 ; Fl. Brit. ii. 539 ; With. iii. 615 ; 

 Woods, Linn. Tr. xii. 197; Lindlev, Mon. 27; 

 Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 383 ; Berwick Flora, 111; 

 Winch, Geog. PI. 2nd ed., No. 6 App. ; Hook. 

 Br. Fl. 231. 



Flowers bright red, paler at the base. 



In woods and hedges about Newcastle, by no means 

 rare. 

 C. R. scuhrhtscula. Rough-leaved Dog Rose. 



Fruit, roundish, ovate, bristly as well as the flower 

 stalks. Prickles awl-shaped, as well as the flower 

 stalks. Leaflets doubly serrated, elliptical, with 

 minute hairs. Divisions of the calyx perma- 

 nent. 



Eng. Bot. t. 1896 ; Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 193 ; 

 Sm. Compend. 78; With. iii. 615; Berwick 

 Flora, 111 ; Winch, Geog. PI., 2nd ed.. No. 7, 

 App. ; R. tomentosa x. ? Hook. Br. Fl. 231 ; R. 

 tomentosa /3, Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 383. 



Fruit red. Bristles on the fruit and flower-stalks 

 ending in minute glands ; but there is a variety 

 with smooth fruit. Leaflets are more pointed 

 than represented in Eng. Bot. and covered with 

 a hoary, velvety down. 



In hedges near Benwell (1797), Paradise, Scotswood, 

 Fenham, Jesmond, Ponteland, and Heaton Dene, 

 N. Near Ravensworth, the High and Low Team, 



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and Tanfield, D. Near Wallington W. C. 



Trevelyan, Esq. On the banks of Tweed, above 

 the Union Bridge, and in hedges near Berwick, N, 

 — Dr. G. Johnston. 



The buds are peculiarly handsome when sufficiently 

 expanded to shew the bright red tints with which 

 the outer edge of the snow-white petals is marked. 

 Probably Sir J. E. Smith is right in considering 

 this rose a Variety of Rosa tomentosa ; but I shall let 

 it stand as a species, till the contrary be proved by 

 sowing its seeds. 

 '. R. Eglanteria. Sweet Briar. 



Fruit ob-ovate, bristly as well as the flower-stalks. 

 Leaves doubly serrated. Prickles of the stem 

 hooked, clothed beneath with rusty-coloured 

 glands. Segments of the calyx deciduous. 



Huds. Fl. Ang. 218; Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 

 206; Winch, Geog. PI., 2nd ed., No. 8, App. ; 

 R. Tulnginosa, Eng. Bot. 991 ; Fl. Brit. ii. 540 ; 

 With. iii. 616 ; Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 385 ; Lindley, 

 Mon. 86; Hook. Fl. Scot. 157; Gr. Fl. Eds. 

 113; Hook. Br. Fl. 234; Berwick Flora, 112. 



Flower pale red, fruit scarlet- 



ln hedges near the Friar's Goose and Hebburn Hall, 

 also on rocks below Westoe, D. In Rocoe Lane 

 near Monkwearmouth. — Rev. J. Symons. Near 



High ConniscIifFe Mr. Janson. In Raby Park, 



D. — Mr. J. Backhouse. On the edge of the mili- 

 tary road by the twelfth mile stone, also on the north 

 side of the Coquet at Warkworth, almost opposite 

 the church, N. — Wallis, 143. Naturalized about 

 Scremmerston and Broom House. — Dr. G. John- 

 ston. 

 '. R. Eorreri. Downy-stalked Dog Rose. 

 Fruit ovate, smooth. Flower-stalks villous, 

 somewhat bristly, clustered. Prickles of the 

 stem hooked. Leaflets ovate, doubly serrated, 

 slightly hairy beneath. Foot-stalks very downy. 



Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 210; Winch, Geog. PI., 

 2nd ed., No. 9, App. ; R. iumctorum, Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2579 ; Sm. Compend. 79 ; With. iii. 618 ; Sm. 

 Eng. Fl. ii. 388 ; R. inodora, Hook. Br. Fl. 233 ; 

 R. Tuhiginosa inodora, Hook. Fl. Lond. t. 117- 



£ Lindley Mon. 88. 



Fruit scarlet, ovate. Petals pale pink, yellowish 

 at the base. 



In a hedge on Friar's Goose Quay, probably brought 

 with ballast from the south of England. 



This rose is accurately delineated in the English Bo- 

 tany, but the calyx remains long on the fruit. Like 

 Rosa canina, it frequently throws out long leading 

 shoots, which soon overtop the bunches of flowers. 

 In all likelihood Lindley was not in error in making 

 it a variety of the Eglantine. 

 . R. dumctorum. Thicket Rose. 



Fruit elliptical, smooth, as tall as the bracteas. 

 Flower-stalks aggregate, slightly hairy. Calyx 

 pinnate. Prickles numerous, scattered, hooked. 

 Leaves simply serrated, hairy on botli sides. 



Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 217; Sm. Eng. Fl. 

 ii. 392 ; Lam. and De Cand. Fl. Fr. iv. 534 ; 

 Eng. Bot. 2610 ; Winch, Geog. PI. 2nd ed., 

 No. 11, App; R. cccsia, Sm. Eng. FL ii. 389; 

 W r oods, Linn. Trans, xii. 212 ; Eng. Bot. 2367; 

 Hook. Br. Fl. 239 ; R. canina £, Hook. Fl. Scot. 

 157 ; R. hractescens, Woods, Linn. Trans, xii. 

 216; Sm. Eng. Fl. ii. 391. 



