98— ROSA HIBERNICA Templeton 
Rosa hibernica : caule ramoso, erecto vel suberecto ; aculeis sparsis, parvis, 
modice robiistis, falcatis, aciculis sparsis intermixtis ; foliolis 5-7, parvis, late ovali- 
bus, simpliciter serratis, obtusis, facie glabris, dorso leviter piibescentibus vel 
glabris ; rhachi aciciilata, pubescente vel glabra, parce glandulosa ; stipiilis adnatis, 
apice libero divergente, dentato ; floribus fere 1-3; pedunculis brevibiis, midis; 
bracteis parvis ; calycis tubo parvo, globoso, nudo ; lobis pinnatifidis, apice elongate, 
foliaceo, dorso glabro ; petalis parvis, riibro tinctis ; stylis villosis, liberis, inclusis ; 
fructu globoso, parvo, sordide rubro, nudo, sepalis persistentibus coronato. 
R. hibernica Templeton in Trans. Dublin Soc. vol. iii. pp. 162-4 (1802-3). — 
Smith in Eng. Bot. vol. xxxi. t. 2196(1810) ; Eng. FI. vol. ii. p. 393 (1824). — Aiton, 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 261 (181 1). — Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xii. p. 222 
(1818). — Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 82, No. 47 (1820). — Syme in Eng. Bot. ed. 3, 
vol. iii. p. 205, t. 463 (1864). — Baker in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 209 (1869). — 
Deseglise in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xv. p. {Cat. Rais. Ros. p. 138 [1877]) (1876). 
In exposed places a compact erect bush 3-4 feet high, in hedges more drawn 
out ; prickles scattered, small, moderately robust, curved, intermixed with a few 
unequally distributed aciculi. Leaflets 5-7, small, broadly oval, obtuse, f-i in. long, 
simply toothed, glabrous on the upper surface, green with a slight glaucous tinge, in 
the type somewhat pubescent beneath ; petioles pubescent in the type, aciculate, not 
very glandular; sHpnles adnate, with short, free, divergent, ovate, toothed tips. 
Flowers usually 1-3; peduncles short, naked; bracts small. Calyx-tube small, 
globose, naked ; lobes ovate with a long leafy point, pinnatifid, glabrous on the 
back. Corolla pale pink, ij-ii in. diameter. Styles villous, free, included. Fruit 
globose, naked, ^ in. diameter, dark dull red, crowned with the persistent sepals. 
Rosa hibernica has not been found wild beyond the limits of 
Ireland and England. For its discovery near Belfast in 1802 
Mr. William Templeton was awarded the premium of five guineas 
which had been offered by the Dublin Society for the discovery of a 
new Irish plant. 
It is intermediate between spinosissima L. ^.nARosa canina L., 
and is generally supposed to be a hybrid between these two species. 
It is extremely polymorphous, and Lindley was at a loss to know under 
which section to place it, for its habit is, when weak, like Rosa spinos- 
issima, and when more vigorous, like Rosa canina. He admired 
Mr. Woods’s acuteness in selecting as its most important character 
the mixture of small, straight prickles or acicles on the branches, 
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