feeble setae, which degenerate occasionally into soft spreading
hairs. We do not recollect finding any hairs or setae on
the calyx-tube, except at the very base. The segments of
the calyx have a long narrow leafy point, and narrowly lanceolate
pinnae; the edges of which, sometimes naked and
entire, are more usually toothed, and fringed, often very
beautifully, with glands. The petals are of a delicate pink,
or, now and then, white. The stigmas are but slightly protruded.
The fruit is bright scarlet, pulpy when ripe, elliptical
; globose in the var. S of Woods, the specimens of which
have a peculiar aspect. We have figured at b a specimen
received from Mr. Winch, as his R. glaucophylla.
The trivial name sarmentacea (not a very appropriate one)
was adopted from a MS. of the late Dr. Swartz. This supposed
species, through all its variations, presents no character,
but the rather evasive one of the double serratures, to
distinguish it from the equally variable R. canina, t. 992.
It should not be forgotten, that our friend Mr. Woods proposes
his species with the usual modesty of real science;
and in some instances, more, as he himself has premised,
to excite attention to the plants in question, than from a decided
opinion that they are truly and permanently distinct.
W. B.