opinion, that it is originally a foreigner of fome of the fouthern 
Courtries, and fo hardy a Plant, that it ftill keeps its time of 
bloflToming (which in its own Country might be about the end of 
December^ though removed hither into a much colder Climate 
whether of thefe is moft probable, I ftiall not determin, but leave 
every /?e^^/^r beft to pleafehimfelf ; and whatever more can be 
faid of it, I fliall referve till I come into somerftt-Jhire^ where it is 
in greateft reputation, and has been moft obferved. 
41 . Whereunto perhaps may be added a kind of Rofa Caninai 
which we have ventured to ftile, humilior fru^u rotundiori, for that 
it wants much of the height and ftrength of the common one^^nd 
has round leaves^ and the hip comprefled at the top,and branches 
thick fet with fmall frickjes between the great ones ; whereas the 
common one has both leaves and hips long and pointed,and only a 
larger fort of prickles fet at fome diftance ; But whether this be not 
therofafylveftris folio glabro^flore plane albo^o^John Baukin^ to w^^ 
we find it moft agreeable of any defcribed we dare not pro- 
I nouncc ; and therefore have not ventured to give it any draught, 
but have left it to further enquiry, which that all men may readi- 
ly make, they may find it growing plentifully in Magdalene College 
w^ater-walks ^ in the way up Heddington-\\\\\ ; and in many other 
places near about Oxford. And if judged at length to be that of 
John Bauhin : however, we find it not noted by Mr. Raj, and there- 
fore cannot be guilty of mifplacing it here. 
42. Befide this, I met with no others either dubious or omit- 
ted, butfeveralof rhem difeafed, difcoloured or ftriped ; fuch 
as P ericlymenum fylvejire (with the more accurate Botanijis^ rather 
a fuhfrutex than a fhrub^ found at Shotover-\{i\\*j C ornit^ fdemina 
Water §l:ock.\ Rubrn major vulgaris^ in the Lane between F/>y?oc4 
and Fawler ; and Sambucu^ vulgaris^ in the hedges at Cowley^ and 
near to Oxford ; all which are ftriped yellow, but the la/i fom- 
what more remarkably than any of the former, the veins only be- 
ing yellow, znd blithe par enchymou<s part of the leaf remaining 
green^ fo that the Jiriping reprcfents as it were a Net -work.: but 
this alfo growing out after fome time like the reft, muft be repu- 
ted of the fame kind, and to proceed from the fame caufe. Which 
is all I have found obfervable under the species of firubs^ ex- 
cept it be worthy notice, that in the Cbiltern part of Oxford- 
* HiJi.Plant,ltb-l^. cap. I. 
cantha^ 
