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ROSA, Linn.
SPINOSISSIMÆ.
Rosa Hibernica, Sm.
R. hibernica, Smith, English Botany, ed. 1, t. 2196 (1810).
Var. Grovesii, Baker.
R. hibernica, Sm., var. Grovesii, Baker in Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1876, p. 15 (1878); and 1887, p. 178 (1888).
R. canina, L. var. Grovesii, Baker in London Catalogue of British Plants, ed. 8, p. 14 (1886).
"An erect compact bush, from 3 to 5 feet in height. Prickles of the barren stem more slender and less hooked than in canina, 3/8 inches long, with a scar 3/8 inches long, passing down by gradual transitions into a few subulate, straight, slightly declining aciculi, none of which are gland-tipped. Leaves of the barren shoot 3-4 inches long, glaucous, glabrous; stipules, glabrous, with a few glands on the edge; common petiole with 4-6 minute aciculi, none of which are gland-tipped; leaflets oblong ¾-1¼ inches long, sharply, irregularly, but not distinctly, doubly dentate; teeth rarely gland-tipped; end leaflets 1-1¼ inches long, ¾-7/8 inches broad, broadly rounded at the base. Flowers 1-3, usually solitary; peduncle naked, 3/8-½ inch long; calyx-tube broad oblong, naked; segments ½-5/8 inches long, naked on the back, with a distinct leafy point, some simple, some sparingly pinnate. Corolla milk-white, 18-21 lines across when expanded; petals an inch long. Styles densely pilose. Fruit broad ovoid, 5/8-¾ inches long, turning colour at the end of August, deep crimson-red, the spreading sepals fully persistent, still remaining attached in October. Connects hibernica var. glabra with canina, vars. sub-cristata, Schultzii, and Hailstoni."—Baker.
Barnes Common, Surrey.

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ROSA Dicksoni.
Dicksonian Rose.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Petals 5. Seeds (carpels) numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of the calyx.
Spec. Char. "Shoots setigerous." Prickles scattered, slender, subulate. Leaflets oval, hoary, coarsely and irregularly serrated, sparingly glandulose beneath. Fruit ovate-urceolate.
Syn. Rosa Dicksoni. Lindl. in Trans, of Hort. Soc. v. 7. 224. Borr. in Hook. Brit. Fl. 224.
R. Dicksoniana. Lindl. Syn. Brit. 99.

A Native of Ireland, whence it was introduced to the garden of the eminent botanist after whom, at Mr. Sabine's instance, it has been named; Mr. James Drummond is recorded by Lindley as the discoverer. Ours are garden specimens.
It is a very distinct species, approaching in the appearance of the large, oval, downy leaflets to R. pomífera; and, as in that species, the upper part of the flower-stalk is incrassated and ripens with the fruit; but the serratures of the leaves are less regularly compound, and the glands on the underside are but few and inconspicuous, and the bush is of more humble growth, and similar in habit, in arms, and in the dark red and, in some states, cesious bark, to R. cinnamomea. The branches, however, are more divaricated, and the prickles less numerous on the root-shoots, and those on the branches less generally confined to pairs below the stipules.
Larger prickles with a small dilated base, slightly compressed and sometimes a little curved. Leaflets 5 or 7; serratures large, irregularly gashed, or occasionally simple, edged with minute glands. Stipules large, pale, their underside and edges glandulose: upper ones broader, usually coalescing, where the flowers form bunches, into large concave pointed bractese; under the solitary flowers mostly retaining 1 or 3 leaflets. Flower-stalks setose. Calyx segments glandulose on the back, slender and downy upwards with a long leafy point, simple, or with a linear-Ian. ceolate pinna or two; sometimes, as in other species, the whole segment is broader, with leafy edges and several irregular wings, indicating some degree of monstrosity. Petals deep-pink, shorter than the calyx. Styles included, hairy, with depressed pale stigmas. Fruit usually with a few strong setae, rather large, orange red, ovate with a lengthened neck, crowned with the persistent segments of the calyx.
The bush from which our specimens were taken exhibits no setae, nor have we seen them on any other specimens. For their usual existence we depend on Mr. Lindley, who has had better opportunities of studying the species, and has assigned it a place among the Cinnamomeae. Still it is possible that he has used the term setae in its less strict sense, for setaceous prickles not tipped with a gland.—W. B.

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Rosa Wilsoni Wilson's Rose.
Gen. Char. Cal.[yx] urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Seeds numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of the calyx.
Spec. Char. Prickles crowded, unequal, straight, intermixed with setae. Leaflets simply serrated, hairy; their disk eglandulose. Calyx simple. Fruit nearly globular, with a short neck.
Rosa Wilsoni. Borr. in Hook. Brit. Fl. 228.
This beautiful addition to our Roses was discovered by William Wilson, Esq., in July 1826, near Bangor Ferry, on a declivity by the Menai [ed. note: in NE Wales, the Menai being the straits between the island Angelsley and the mainland] where it spreads widely by the root, and forms bushes about three feet high, with slender diffuse branches, and foliage which early acquires a remarkable tinge of red. In general habit it most resembles R. rubella, t. 2521; but the prickles are more unequal, and the large ones considerably dilated at the base, and they are intermixed with a much smaller proportion of gland-tipped setae; the leaflets are larger, broader, and flatter, of a deeper and brighter green, although not shining, and sprinkled with hairs on both sides, but chiefly on the nerves and veins beneath; the flowers....generally solitary or merely in pairs, and are subtended by larger and broader bracteas. The simple serratures and the want of glands on the disk of the leaflets, distinguish it from R. involuta; and the same characters, and the much less dense pubescence, from all the varieties of R. Sabini. Lealets 9 or 7, except on the upper leaves towards the flowers....Stipules dilated towards the points....Flower-stalk setose...Petals...of a beautiful dark pink...Fruit orange-scarlet...