ICOSANBRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 
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Differs from the common R. spinosissima in being a small spreading bush, 
whereas the flowering stems of that species are strong and erect, more 
in the manner of R. canina. E. Bot. 
Fruit invariably pear-shaped and scarlet; the shrub appears a link be¬ 
tween R. spinosisissima and R. alpina, the latter of which it resembles in 
habit. Winch. 
Red-fruited Dwarf Rose. Banks of the Dee about Abergaldy. Mr. 
Anderson. Linn. Tr. vol. xi. p. 244. Gathered by Mr. Winch on the sea- 
beach near Shields Law, in the county of Durham; and supposed by him 
to be the same as Mr. Atkinson’s plant from Lanscale Haws, with 
which, in foliage, it precisely accords, but in the specimens communi¬ 
cated to us, is much less spinous, both the fruit-stalks and stems of our 
plant being in a most remarkable manner thickly beset whh strong 
prickles, in length exceeding the diameter of the parts to which they are 
attached. E.) 
(R. involu'ta. Fruit globose, as also the flower-stalks, very prickly: 
stems armed with numerous straight prickles .* petals closed in¬ 
wards. FI. Brit. 
E. Bot . 2068. 
Resembles R. spinosissima in its manner of growth, and in the shade rises 
to a tall shrub. Winch. Petals whitish, tinged with red, not expanded. 
FI. Brit. In specimens communicated by favour of Mr. Winch, who ob¬ 
serves, “the petals are only sometimes involute, generally expanding 
like those of other Roses,” the leafits are four times the size of those of 
either R. spinosissima or rubella, and the spines less densely set than in 
those species. R. Sabini appears scarcely to differ from this, except in 
being taller, which may probably be accounted for by difference of 
situation; and under the same species may rank R. Doniana , (Woods, in 
Linn. Tr. vol. xii.) less extensively creeping at the root, and less prickly 
in the upper part. 
Prickly Unexpanded Rose. R. spinosissima, var. With. Ed. 5. Dis¬ 
covered in the Western Islands of Scotland by Messrs. Walker and 
J. Mackay: also found by Mr. Winch in Heaton Dean, below Benton 
Bridge, Northumberland. S. July. E.) 
R. villo'sa. (Fruit globose, half as long as the segments of the calyx, 
bristly as well as the flower-stalks : prickles of the stem straight: 
leaflets elliptic, ovate, downy on both sides: calyx permanent. 
When R. villosa grows on sterile soil, or in a bleak situation, it assumes 
the stunted habit and full red flower as represented in E. Bot. 2459. 
This I consider as nothing but a variety of R. villosa ; (not of Swartz, 
which is supposed to be an exotic, the Apple Rose of our gardens,) and 
its fruit varies from perfect smoothness to a considerable degree of rough¬ 
ness, and the bush altering in mode of growth according to soil and 
exposure. Winch. 
Soft-leaved Round-fruited Rose. R. villosa. Woods, in Linn. Tr. v. 
xii. Sm. Eng. FI. R. villosa. var. 2. With. Ed. 6. R. villosa, (3 mollis - 
sima. Willd.. R. villosa, (3. FI. Brit. R. mollis. E. Bot. R. tomentosa. 
/3. Hook. Lindl. Extremely common about Newcastle. Mr. Winch. 
Between Edinburgh and Ravelston Wood. Sir J. E. Smith. Between 
Millbrook and Crafthole, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. Not uncommon 
in the mountainous districts of England, Scotland, and Wales. E.) 
