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ROSA multiflora. 

 Ehramble-Jlowered, Ifose, 



IGOSANDRIA POLYOYNIA. 



Nat. ord. RosACfcia. Jussieu gen. 3S4- IXv. II. Rcte. 

 ROSA. Suprh vol. l.foL46. - K 



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Div. Rami imputes, acukati, setts nnttk, stylis ife coIv.*mdm< ehntwhm 



coaltii*. Lfodley MSS. .; ??.,■■. 



R. multiflora, subscandens, foliojis auinatis, lanceolatis, nMj&Srap-, rugo- 



sulis, peduncuh's calycibusque tomenftais. Lindtey MSf*** "■" 

 Rosa multiflora. Tkunb.Jap. 214. WUM: sp. pi; 2. 1 077; r Hbrt.j$ew. ed. 



% 3. 265. C«rtw* ww^a*. 1059i Smith in Red* cyttotM** lorn. 



Lindley's monograph, fymb " ' *4- 



Rosa flava. Donn cant. ed. 4. 1 21 ; ^<fe Smith. 



Frutex 12-15-pedalis : Tamijlogellifbrmes, subsetmdenies, tmpuOes, rubric 

 strides, aculeis geminis stipularibu* sounds *<fimibu*l. J*oK vaMfr*opata, 

 cinerea; stipule linearis ihargine ptmtatifida> stiHus-.itmentmappe&aiivil-' 

 losissimi; foliola 5*7 subimoricata, lanceolata y rugot«y- gimplifdth* serrata, 

 utrinque tomentosa. Flore* pulchre rubescentes, dense" corymbod ; . feracte*' 

 lineares, dentala> extus tomentosa; pedunculi, calycis tubtts* dsprnswst 

 sepalaque simplicia, ovata, dense tomentosa / petala semper hortis muUiplicia. 

 Styli dilatati pilosi in columnam elongatam coaliti. Fructus ignotus. Lind- 

 ley MSS. 



Thunberg was the discoverer of this very pretty species, 

 near Nagasaki, in Fisher's Island, at Papenberg, &c. &c. 

 in Japan. No one has since been so fortunate as to meet 

 with it in a wild state., 



Introduced by Mr. Thomas Evans in 1804; and is now 

 cultivated in the open air against walls and along trellis- 

 work. 



It is very readily distinguished from all the other species 

 with columnar styles, by its lanceolate leaves, which are 

 slightly wrinkled and soft to the touch ; but more particu- 

 larly by the dense hairiness of the calyx and its peduncle, 

 on which account we are disposed to make the singular co- 

 herence of styles the character of species rather than of a 

 group; because there are some individuals from the East 

 Indies in the Banksian Herbarium, which possess little 

 besides this character in common with those with which 



