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R O S A mollis.
Soft-leaved Round-fruited Rose.
l/Lf
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
G en. 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. 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.
Svn. Rosavillosa @. Sm. FI. Brit. 538. Relh. 19 3.
R. sylvestris, folio molliter hirsuto, fructu rotundo
glabro, calyce et pediculo hispidis. Dill, in Raii
Syn. 478.
P l a n t s of this Rose, brought by the late Mr. Geo. Jackson
from Scotland, have blossomed, under the care of Mr. Anderson,
in the garden of Jas. Vere, Esq.; and they confirm an opinion
we have long entertained, of its being a distinct species from the
true R. villosa, t. 583. It is however what was gathered between
Edinburgh and Ravelston wood, and appears to be not very uncommon
in England and Wales. The Rev. H. Davies has
observed the fruit to vary in Anglesea, from perfect smoothness
to every degree of roughness; which removes all doubt as to the
synonym of Dillenius.
The stem is of much humbler growth than that of the villosa;
the leaflets less elongated, and more inclining to ovate; the
petals of a deeper red; the ripe fruit much smaller. One segment
of the calyx,, and no more, is often very distinctly pinnated.
The leaflets in our t. 583 are not sufficiently elongated, nor
so correctly elliptical as they ought to be.