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R O S A tomentofà.
Downy-leaved Dog-rofe.
ICO SAND R1A Poly g y nia.
G en. Char. Cal. urn-fhaped, flefhy, contraâed at
the orifice, terminating in 5 fegments. Petals 5.
Seeds numerous, briftly, fixed to the infide of the
calyx.
Spec. Char. Fruit ovate, briftly as well as the
flovver-flalks. Prickles of the Hem hooked.
Leaflets ovate, downy on both fides.
Syn. Rofa tomentofà. Sm, FI. Brit, 539.
R . villofa [3. Hudf. 219. With. 466. Hull. i n .
R. villofa. Relb. 194. Sibth. 139 ?
R. fylveftris frudtu majore hifpido. Rail Syn. 454.
R. fylveftris alba, cum aliquo rubore, folio hirfuto.
Bauh. Hifi, v. 2. 44.
JL HIS Rofe, when detected at Norwich about 20 years ago,
was confidered by the London botanifts as a new difcovery;
yet there can be little doubt of its being the plant of Ray which
Hudfon referred (as a variety) to R. villofa; ftill lefs doubt is
there of its being a totally- diftinA fpecies. It grows in
many places near Norwich, moll copioufly in the fequeftered
Arminghall wood; alfo about London. In Shropfhire and
Wales it abounds. Mr. Relhan and Mr. Holme have fent it
from Cambridge, along with the true villofa, but the former
allures us this is the plant he intended by that name in his
Flora. Laftly, the much lamented lady of Lord John Ruffell
found it in Bromham lane near Bedford.
In fize, general habit, and form of the leaflets, it agrees with
R. canina, but effentially differs in the leaves being downy all
over, of a greyilh green, and (lightly fragrant, as in R. villofa.
The petals are almoft white in their lower part; in the upper
they vary in every lhade of rofe-colour, and are a little odorous.
The fruit is ovate, fcarlet, briftly, quite unlike that of R. villofa.
This Rofe bloffoms in June and July; and the fruit, confpicuous
among common heps by its roughnefs, remains through the
autumn. We do not find the calyx generally permanent.