162 KOSACKyE. [Kcjgd- 



or less biistly, bright scarlet, with a dry pulp and numerous large bony seeds, 

 crowned with the persistent sepals. 



3. E. viicrantha, Sm. Small-floivered Sweet Briar. " Prickles 

 uniform uncinate, leaves doubly serrated hairy glandulose beneath, 

 calyx-segments and pinnfe elongated deciduous, fruit small ellip- 

 tical and ovate, ramuli sparingly setigerous." — Br. Fl. p. 130. 

 E. B. t. 3490. 



In hedges, thickets, borders of woods and bushy pastures; not uncommon. 

 Fl. June, July. Tj . 



E. Med. — Between Eyde and Newport, Rev. G. E. Smith. 



W. Med. — Abundant in the great fir and beech plantation oni the downs near 

 Westover. Near Shoiwell, Rev. O. E. Smith. 



Fruit (pome) scarlet or orange-red, about J of an inch in length, elliptical- 

 oblong, more or less contracted above into a sort of neck, (mostly ?) smooth (with- 

 out setse) at the base. 



b. Prickles various, intermixed with setce. 



4. R. 7'ubiginosa, L. Stveet Briar. Eglantine. " Prickles 

 numerous, larger uncinate, smaller subulate, leaflets doubly ser- 

 rated hairy glandulose beneath mostlj' rounded at the base, calyx- 

 segments and pinnffi elongated persistent, primordial fruit pear- 

 shaped." — Br. Fl. p. 130. E. B. t. 991. Jacq. Fl. Aust. i. 31, t. 

 50. 



In thickets, hedges, borders of woods and fields, and in open bushy pastures ; 

 occasionally. Fl. June, July. Tp . 



E. Med. — [Border of a copse on Bembridge-lodge property at Bembridge, A. 

 G. More, i's^.— Edrs.] 



W. Med. — In a pasture-field at the foot of the great plantation of fir-beech, 

 &c., on the slope of the down at Westover, in considerable plenty. In a field 

 near the Yar, and almost facing Freshwater farm, a single bush only. 



Fruit (pome) bright orange or scarlet, about as long as the last but much 

 broader, the primordial or central one of each cluster more or less pear-shaped, the 

 rest ovate or subglobose, more or less setigerous or quite smooth. Seeds large. 



ff Leaves eglandulose. 

 u. Styles distinct, included or nearly so. 



5. R. canina, L.. Dog Rose. Hip or Hep. " Prickles uni- 

 form hooked, leaves naked or slightly hairy, their disk eglandu- 

 lose, calyx- segments fully pinnate deciduous, styles not united, 

 shoots assurgent." Br. FL p. 131. E. B. t. 992. 



Everywhere in woods and copses, on hedyebanks, by roadsides and borders of 

 fields, &c. Fl. June, July. Ij . 



b. Styles united in a column, mostly exserted. 



6. R. systyla, Bast. ? Close -styled Dog Rose. " Prickles uni- 

 form uncinate, leaves simply serrated, their disk eglandulose, 

 calyx-segments sparingly pinnate deciduous, styles united hairless, 

 shoots assurgent." — Br. Fl. p. 131. R. collina, E. B. t. 1895 

 (excl. syn.) 



In hedges, thickets and borders of woods. 7^/. June, July. Tj . 



