August l*5.1 1829.
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R O S A Sabini.
Sabinian Rose.
ICOSANTJRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at
the orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Petals 5.
Seeds numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of the
calyx.
Spec. Char. Prickles scattered, straight, unequal,
intermixed with setae. Leaflets doubly serrated,
slightly hairy, chiefly beneath. Calyx-segments
pinnate. Fruit nearly globular.
Syn. Rosa Sabini. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 188.
Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 380. Lindl. Ros. 59. and
Syn. Brit. 100. excluding the variety.
T h a t a the line of specific discrimination can scarcely
be accurately drawn” among “ the beautiful forms” of the
Roses, was the remark of the regretted friend whose assistance
we now much miss, when describing for this work, five-
and-thirty years ago, the first of the five Roses at that time
recognised as British species. Nor is the remark less apposite
at the present day; so little has our real knowledge
in this respect kept pace with the increase of the number of
supposed species. Of these no fewer than twenty-two are
enumerated in the recent English Flora of the same excellent
author, and a few additions have since been made to the
list. To the botanist whose name Mr. Woods has affixed
to the plant before us we look with confidence for much
sound information, whenever he shall favour the world
with the result of his observations on the splendid collection
of the genus which his exertions have brought together
in the garden of the Horticultural Society.
R . Sabini is found wild in various places in Scotland and
the North of England. Our drawing was made from garden
specimens, that we might be certain of figuring Woods’s