ROSA SABINI 929 
labelled var. Smithzi do not seem at all well defined. I think i 
general that dwarf habit, subglabrous or thinly hairy leaflets, es 
very much biserrate, strong or at least dense armature, and sub- 
entire sepals are the leading features of the form. Its main 
prickles are straight and subulate, and are well marked off from 
the minor armature, which varies much in quantity, but in the 
best forms is plentiful. The leaflets are usually glabrous above 
and hairy on midrib or nerves only ste ‘et in the forms 
which come nearest Doniana they may airy above, and 
more or less densely so all over — The toothing varies 
from nearly simple to fully compound and glandular. There does 
ete, 
occasionally have one or two sare, indicating a passage to 
Sabint. i 
Woods, of half-closed flowers, seems a peculiar one for any rose. 
Robertson, on one of his sheets, suggests that this was the effect 
of dry weather. I have not seen the plant growing, so can give 
no notes "Prox own experience 
On account a the difficulty of satisfactorily segregating FR. in- 
voluta from its allies I am unable to give its distribution, but 
believe it to be fairly general, and certainly rare in England, 
shovel more frequent in Scotland. . It is doubtful whether it 
Rosa SABINI 
Woods in Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. p. 188 (1818). 
“ R. ebracteata, caulibus setigeris, receptaculis globosis, calycibus 
compositis, foliolis uplicato-serratis.—A shrub 4 to 6 ft. high. 
with sete as on the pedun Sepals compound, very 
narrow pinne, and no ly setose lands. 
Flowers red, ae e ‘panded. Siyles egasins 2 Stigmas 
From all other British setigerous roses R.  Sabind gat wigeegponite 
by the divided leafits of its fies but the segments are some- 
times so strictly copied hari to be enn from — 
large and long ‘se: 
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