xxvii. rosaceas : rose-e. 
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i?osa.] 
Beaumont, Jersey; Start-point, Devon; Gwithian, Cornwall; 
Lough Neagh, Ireland. U. 9, 7. — Of this we have seen no British 
specimens. According to C. A. Meyer, it differs from the last only by 
the mature calyx. 
Tribe IV. Rosid.t,. Aclienes numerous , hairy , terminated with 
the long persistent style, and enclosed within the fleshy ( fruit- 
like ') tube of the calyx, which is contracted at the orifice. Se- 
pals 5. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. — Shrubs with prickly 
or naked stems. Leaves pinnate. (Gen. 14.) 
14. Rosa 1 Linn. Rose. Dog-Rose. Sweet-Briar. 
Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating 
in 5 segments. Pet. 5. Stam. many. Aclienes numerous, hairy, 
fixed to the inside of the calyx. — Named from the Celtic 
rhos, or ros in modern Gaelic ; whence was probably derived 
rhodd, red; also the Greek name for a rose, poSov, and ipvOpoc, 
red. 
* Shoots setigerous, prickles slightly curved. 
f Bracteas large. 
1. R. *Dichs6ni Lindl. ( Dickson’s P.) ; “ shoots setigerous,” 
prickles scattered slender subulate, leaflets oval coarsely and 
irregularly serrate hoary and sparingly glandulose beneath, 
calyx-segments long simple, fruit ovate-urceolate. E. B. S. 
t. 2707. 
Ireland; discovered by Mr. J. Drummond. (Lindley. ) b . 6. — 
Scarcely a native according to Irish botanists : it may prove to be a 
mere garden var. of the next. It is probable that Professor Lindley 
“ has used the term setce for setaceous prickles not tipped with a 
gland.” Mr. Borrer. 
2. R. * cinnamdmoa L. ( Cinnamon R.) ; shoots setigerous, 
prickles scattered slender subulate, leaflets lanceolate-oblong 
simply serrate downy and glandulose beneath, calyx-segments 
long simple, fruit small ovate. E. B. t. 2388. (excl. the fruit.) 
Wood at Aketon Pasture, near Pontefract, Yorkshire (Mr. Sabine 
has, however, sought for it there in vain). Near Clonmel. At 
Birkhill, Galston, Ayrshire, but surely not wild. Jj- 5 — 7. 
jf Bracteas small or wanting. 
3. R. spinosissima L. ( Burnet-leaved R.) ; prickles crowded 
1 Forth? characters of all the species of this most difficult genus, weare indebted 
to Mr. Borrer. Copious synonyms and illustrative remarks, for which there is not 
room in the present volume, may be found in the second edition of the British 
Flora, p. 226, &c. 
