ROSA CSIA 87 
Rosa cz 
Smith, English Botany, = 2367 (1811). 
“Fruit roundish-ovate, smooth. Prickles of stem hooked. 
Leaflets ovate, pointed, doubly serrated, bgtes: very glaucous, 
as well as the germen and song branches 
‘comp et bu ‘ 
glaucous on Pca young a and re St tem an 4 
smooth, naked, shorter than bracts. Flowers of uniform beautiful 
carnation hue, occasionally white. Calyx-tube ellipsoid, naked, 
them 
sotelinnen slightly glandular st soe Styles prominent, very hairy. 
Sepals deciduous. oie ellipsoid.” 
The original specimen from which the above ee was 
made is in the British colledtiola of.the National Herbariu It 
was collected by Borrer at Taymilt, Argyleshire, and is iis end 
of a stem with four or five short flowering- branches on it. Its 
prickles are on very long bases, slender, a good deal curved or 
even hooked, more or less in pairs. The leaflets are small and 
close set, elliptical, acute, not acuminate, narrowed below, 
and glabrous above, at least when mature, hairy all over beneath 
but not densely so, with prominent veins. The toothing is fine 
and sige and on. slighty double, some teeth being simple and 
, but b 
or felted, quite unarmed, and very little glandular. Stipules quite 
hairy on back. Peduncles short, only very oan hispid-glan- 
dular. cl eg pte ae gp on back a9 xg a 
narrow, with few narrow simple pinne, refs 
not formed. Styles in a baited head, densely hairy, ale as in 
&. cortifolia 
It will be vhiaed that Smith credits his plant with ae 
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peduncles, but Borrer describes them as “ nak r sparin 
setose,” which agrees with his ve eas and other authentic 
ones from the e > neighk ur soc in his Review 
R. casia Sm. appears to be a rare and local species, being 
found in Argyle and Perth. It is reported from various other 
