of our plant, and there are some other trifling differences; 

 but we do not doubt the identity of our species and his. 



Redoute* says that his Kamchatka, figured in Ventenat's 

 work many years ago, has now changed to ferox, which he 

 consequently has published as the same. But this must 

 surely be a mistake, as we can perceive no tendency in the 

 two to exhibit even intermediate appearances. 



Native of Kamtschatka, and introduced by M. Cels in 

 1802. 



Shrub 3-5 feet high, loosely spreading : branches trailing, 

 cottony, with biformed hairy prickles, those under the sti- 

 pules falcate and distant, those upon the branch smaller, 

 thickset bristleshaped, with thinly mingled bristles. Leaves 

 wrinkled, opaque, thickset: stipules large, halved obversely 



ovate; hairy, curled at the edge, here and there . beset with 

 glands : petioles cottony, without prickles : leaflets 7, simply 

 serrate, with the teeth callously tipped, naked at the upper 

 side, hairy and paler at the under. Flowers generally soli- 

 tary, red ; bractes elliptic, nearly naked ; peduncles naked, 

 purple : tube of the calyx round, naked : leaflets of the 

 calyx very narrowly triangular, furless on the outside, beset 

 with glands, broader at the tip, longer than the petals: 

 petals obversely cordate, tipped, ultimately flat. Disk raised, 

 fleshy. Ovaries nearly naked : styles hairy, rather naked 

 at the base, mass of stigmas conic, naked. Fruit globular, 

 furless, scarlet, waxen, shorter than the calycine leaflets. 

 Lindley MSS. 



