hairy and glandulose, and mostly bear a few minute straight
prickles. Stipules naked on the upper side, hairy and glandulose
beneath, rather wide, not much divaricated, but
little enlarged under the flowers when these are solitary
or in threes; we have not seen them in larger bunches.
Flower-stalks naked, or some of them bearing a few short
setae. Calyx-tube naked, ovate, with a neck; the scarlet
fruit, which is scarcely larger than a common haw, retaining
the same figure. Calyx-segments persistent, longer than the
petals, the leafy point and spreading pinnae narrowly
lanceolate, somewhat hairy on the outside, and fringed with
gland-tipped teeth. Petals white, or very faintly tinged
with pink. Styles included, hairy. . Stigmas depressed.—
The foliage has less of the Sweet-briar fragrance and more
of the turpentine scent than that of R. micrantha.
With Lindley we refer this plant to R . sepium of Thuil-
lier, a species common in France, and varying much in the
quantity of pubescence, and somewhat in the size and figure-
of its leaflets. Desvaux enumerates nine varieties, as he
regards them, and describes the leaves of five of them as
without glands except on the petioles. Most of our foreign
specimens have very small and distant leaflets, and more
flexuose twigs than our British plant, the pinnae of the
calyx-segments more divaricated, and the glands upon them
less confined to the edges. In some specimens the germen
is setose, with the setae at the base larger than the rest, but
less remarkably so than they usually are in R. rubiginosa.
Mr. B ree finds at Allesley, Warwickshire, the R. Sabini
(3. of Lindley, exactly like the Sussex plant figured in t. 2601.
under Woods’s name, R. Doniana: and at Claverdon, in
the same county, another var. of that species with extremely
numerous prickles, the same, we presume, as is cultivated
in the garden of the Horticultural Society under the designation
of R . Doniana horrida, and mentioned in Hooker’s
British Flora, p. 230.—W. B.