showy, perhaps, than in any other of our wild Roses. The
styles are scarcely protruded, slightly hairy. The fruit is
bright scarlet, pulpy when ripe, and loses early the segments
of the calyx.
Such is the plant we have figured, R. collina /S. of Woods,
R . Forsteri a. of Smith, as it occurs, not very frequently, in
hedges and thickets in Sussex. It is in itself of very peculiar
aspect; but we find various gradations between it and
R . dumetorum. Of these, R. collina y. of Woods is a more
common and considerably dissimilar briar, much more like
R . canina, &c. in habit, its branches being longer, slender,
and arched. Its leaflets are mostly 7, smaller, more
elliptical, less crowded, not glaucous, but of a pale green,
not unlike that of the Sweet Briar, and, as in that also, they
are often remarkably concave. The serratures are frequently
almost double ; and a few glands are scattered on the leafstalks,
which are often without prickles. Hairs are sometimes
found on the upper surface of the leaflets, as in R. dumetorum,
and the flower-stalks are occasionally beset with
soft hairs, more rarely with feeble setae. We have specimens
of this from continental botanists as R . collina of
Jacquin.
Whether Jacquin’s Rose just mentioned be really a
different species or not, we cannot pretend to decide between
the late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Woods, who
came to opposite conclusions from the consideration of the
same authentic specimen. The figure in the Flora Aus-
triaca would lead us to regard it, with Mr. Woods, as
differing from our first variety only by the setae on the
flower-stalks, a character now known to be of no importance.
A plant sent by the younger Jacquin to the garden
of the Horticultural Society, is most like a luxuriant variety
of R. dumetorum ; although its leaves, which are not glaucous,
have hairs on the under surface only. With R. brac-
tescens of Woods we hope to become better acquainted.
R . collina of Engl. Bot. t. 1895, is now generally known
as R . systyla; but it is not, according to later information
acquired by Mr. Woods, the plant originally so named by
Bastard.—W. B.