on the inner side: petioles cottony, bristly and prickly with 

 slender straight prickles ; leaflets 5-9, elliptical, simply 

 (sometimes doubly) serrate, furless at the upper side, cottony 

 at the under and paler. Flowers large, red, solitary: 

 bractes either none or orbicular, hairy, serrate, with a fringe 

 of glands : peduncles cottony ; tube of the calyx obversely 

 ovate, naked ; segments of the calyx narrowly triangular, 

 slightly compound, beset with glands, nearly naked on the 

 outside, longer than the petals ; petals obversely cordate, 

 concave ; disk more faintly denned than in Rosa kamchatica, 

 where it is fleshy and raised. Ovaries shaggy : styles vil- 

 lous, villi close-pressed. Fruit globular, scarlet, waxen, 

 naked as well as the peduncle. Lindley MSS. 



