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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 
(Nearly resembling the above is R. suhgiobosa, Sm. Eng. FI. R. tomentosa , 
var. e and ?/. Woods. The whole plant, except the prickles “ conical, 
hooked, compressed,” and the calyx a copiously pinnate,” bears more 
resemblance to R. vil/osa than tomentosa, and is particularly remarkable 
for its “ large, globular, half-ripe fruit.” Sm. E.) 
(R. gra'cilis. Flower-stalks bristly, generally bracteated: branches 
globular: fruit and calyx bristly: larger prickles hooked: leafits 
doubly serrated, hairy on both sides. 
E. Bot. 583. 
Flowers generally solitary, but occasionally two or three together: fruit 
scarlet. 
Var. 2. FI. alb. with the segments of the calyx usually divided. It is by 
far the most elegant of the British Roses, and, were it not for its hooked 
prickles, comes very near to R. involuta , var. /3. Sabini. 
Tall Bristly Rose. R. gracilis. Woods, in Linn. Tr. v. xii. Sm. Eng. 
FI. R. villosa. E. Bot. At Baydales, near Darlington. Mr. J. Back¬ 
house. In hedges three miles and a half from Keswick, on the Lorton 
or Cockermouth road, ascending Finlatter, where Mr. Woods observed 
it; and at Pooley Bridge. Var. 2, in Ennerdale, or between that and 
Lampleugh Cross. Winch. Geog. Distr. E.) 
(Mr. Edwin Lees announces, in Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 394, a more southerly 
station than has hitherto been assigned to this species, viz. in thickets 
near Cruckbarrow Hill, Worcester, 1828. E.) 
(R. tomentosa. Fruit broadly elliptical, bristly: calyx copiously pin¬ 
nate : prickles slightly curved: leafits ovate, acute, more or less 
downy. Sm. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 124— E. Bot. 990. 
A smaller plant in all its parts than R. villosa, resembling in general habit 
R. canina, but that the leaves are pubescent on both sides, with a greyish 
cast. Fruit scarlet. Petals whitish at the base, above of a beautiful 
rose-colour. FI. Brit. Fruit very different from that of R. villosa. 
Winch. Smith adds, I have seen this plant, on removal to a rich gar¬ 
den soil, assume so rank and prickly a habit as scarcely to be recognized, 
and even in wild situations the pubescence varies greatly; still I find no 
considerable alteration in the division of the calyx, nor in the elliptical 
shape of its tube.” Woods enumerates no less than fifteen varieties, 
Downy-leaved Dog Rose. (Welsh: Rhosyn lledwlanog. R. tomen - 
tosa. Woods. Lindl. Sm. With. Ed. 6. Winch. Purt. R. villosa. Var. 2. 
Huds. j R. villosa. Var. With. Ed. 5. Wild Briar, or Dog Rose, with 
large prickly heps. Ray. Hedges, common. Ray. Woodward. Near 
London. Hudson. Shropshire, Wales, Norfolk. W r ithering. Bootle, 
near Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. By no means rare in the north. By 
Sheriff Hill waggon-way, near Gateshead; at Hamsterley, near Me- 
domsley, and in the lane between High and Low Team, Durham; also 
about Darlington and Keswick. Mr. Winch. Near Brent, Devon. Rev. 
J. Pike Jones. Near Dyffryn, in the parish of Penmynydd, Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. S. June—July. E.) 
(Var. 2. Fruit globose, bristly. 
JE.Bot' 1890. 
