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ROSA ferox. 

 Hedgehog Rose, 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYRIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosack*. Jussieu gen. 334. Dtv. II. Kosje. 

 ROSA. Supra vol. l.fol. 46. 



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Div. Rami tomentosu 

 U.Jertx^ foliis rugo&is glabris, aculeis confertissimis rigidifl, ttipularibuft et 



rameis subaequaiibus, fructu impubu Lindtey MSS. 

 Rosa ferox* Hort. Keto. ed. 2. 3* 262. Mm Luxor, roses, t. il. Smith in 



Rees 9 s cyclop, in loco. 

 Rosa kamcnatica. Redoutfs roses. I* 47* 1. 12. 



Frutex 4r~pedali$ diffusus. Rami tomentosi procumbcnles, acuhis pilosis* 

 gracilibitSt suomaualibus^ Jlavidis^ confortnibus* setis intermixes horridi. Folia 

 gla6ra f nitida f densa f atro-viridia : stipulae dflalatce, $emiobovata t tomentosa, 

 margine crisps, glanduloste, intus nuda : petioli tomentosi, setosi et aculeatt, 

 acuteis gracilibus rectis$ foliola 5-9 elliptica f simpliciter (qvandbquc dupli- 

 cate J serrata> supri impubia, fubtus tomcntow pallidiora. FJores magni 

 rubri solitarii ; bractese v. nulla, v. suborbiculatce, pilosce t scrrata, glandu- 

 foso-ciliatce : pedunculi tomentosi; celych tubus obovatus y nudus; sepala 

 angusie triangularia, subcomposita, glandulosa 9 extils nudiuscula > petalis Ion* 



fiftrag petala obcordata, concava ; discus magis obliteratut qu&m Rosa 

 amchaticfe, kujus carnosus elevatus* Ovaria hirsuta : styli vitlosi, villi* 

 appressis. Fr actus globosus* coccineus, cerinus, nudus ut et peduncutus* 

 Lindfey MSS. 



In the preceding article (Rosa hamchatica) we have no- 

 ticed the chief circumstances which distinguish that from 

 the present very distinct species. That they are most de- 

 cidedly different, must be evident to any one who is ac- 

 quainted with them in a living state ; and on this account 

 we are the less able to imagine what can have induced M. 

 Thory to pronounce them the same. 



Native of Mount Caucasus, and introduced in 1796 by 

 Messrs- Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery- 



Shrub four feet 'high, diffused or loosely spreading: 

 branches cottony, trailing, bristled over with hairy slender 

 yellowish prickles nearly of the same dimensions, with inter- 

 mingling uniform Bristles. Leaves smooth, shining, thick- 

 set, of a black-green hue: stipules widened, halved, obversely 

 ovate, cottony, curled at the edge, beset with glands, naked 



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