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* Shoots setigerous ; prickles scarcely curved. 



1. R. spinosissima, L. ? Burnet • leaved Rose. "Prickles 

 crowded unequal mostly straight intermixed with setae, leaflets 

 small simply serrated their disk eglandulose, calyx simple, fruit 

 nearly globular." — Br. Fl. p. 128. E. B. t. 187. R. pimpinelli- 

 folia, L. 



On dry sandy heaths, moors and pastures, chalky or sandy banks, by roadsides, 

 and in loose sand by the sea, in many places abundantly, Fl. May — July. Fr. 

 September. Ij . 



E. Med. — On and about Staplers Heath, in plenty, and along the road between 

 Wootton and Newport. By Fatting farm, and about the race-course. On Yar- 

 burv hill. 



W. Med. — Woods and banks by the shore between Yarmouth and Newtown. 

 In and about Parkhnrst forest. Common in various places in Freshwater parish, 

 as about Colwell, near Alum Bay, &c. Heathy ground about Kingston, not 

 uncommon. On the heathy slope of Buccorabe down, towiirds Apes down and 

 Rowledsce. 



Fruit varying from the size of black currants to that of a cherry, purplish black 

 when ripe, as are their clavate peduncles, subglobose or subovoid, " in some varie- 

 ties obovate, in others uroeolate" (Leighton) ; firm and mealy rather than pulpy 

 when mature, with a deep purple juice, quite smooth or glabrous, crowned with 

 the spreading or deflexed and persistent calyx, the fleshy base of which forms a 

 shallow ring or neck to the fruit. Seeds blood-red. 



There is a rose apparently of this species, but much taller, abundant in a hedge 

 by a cottage facing Apse heath, by the road from Newchurch to Shanklin and 

 Sandown, 1839. 



** Shoots mostly without setae. 

 f Leaves glandulose. 



a. Prickles uniform or nearly so. Setse few or none. 



2. R. tomentosa, Sm. Downy-leaved Rose. " Prickles mostly 

 uniform straight or curved, leaflets doubly serrated downy glan- 

 dulose, calyx- segments copiously pinnate." — Br. Fl. p. 130. E. 

 B. t. 990. R. scabriuscula, Winch. : E. B. t. 1896 (fig. only ?). 



In hedges, thickets, and anionffst bushes in various places. Fl. June, July. Ij . 



E. Med. — About Kennerley heath, and Bohemia. Field-hedge E. of Bud- 

 bridge farm. In Whitefield wood. 



A small, upright, rigid bush, 4 — 6 feet high, with round, smooth, olive-green 

 or brownish irregular branches. Prickles nearly uniform, but liltle curved, often, 

 as Sir J. Smith remarks, two together at the base of the leaves, the rest scattered. 

 Leaves of 5 — 7 ovate leaflets, of which one of the lowermost pair is sometimes 

 wanting, ovate, acute, doubly serrate, the serratures glandular, of a dull grayish or 

 whitish green, very soft and downy, with a resinous smell when bruised. Stipules 

 linear, fringed with shortly stalked glands. Flowers solitary (as in my specimens), 

 usually 2 or 3, seldom 4 {Sm), rather small, bright red, fragrant. Peduncles 

 hairy, with a few small prickles. Calyx (receptacle of Woods) ovate or elliptical, 

 densely bristly, its sepals villous within, thickly beset with glands on the outside, 

 with long spreading points, and generally described as copiously pinnate, which 

 is by no means the case in my specimens, in which the pinnse rarely exceed a 

 single pair, with an odd one, or two pair at the most^ Petals small, bright led, 

 white towards the claw. Styles numerous, quite distinct, very short, spreading 

 hemisplierically. Stigmas bi'oad, flat. Fruit ovate or somewhat globular, more 



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