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ROSA Woodsii. 
Mr. Joseph Woods's Rose. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacea. 
ROSA. — Suprd, vol. 1 .fol. 46. 
Div. IV. Cinnamomece. 
R. Woodsii; stricta, aculeis rectis sparsis subaequalibus, foliolis opacis glabris 
cuneato-oblongis penninerviis basin versbs integris subtils glaucis, stipulis 
planis subintegris. 
R. lutea nigra. Pronv. nomencl. 24. 
R. Woodsii. Lindl. Ros. mon. 21. “ Spreng. neu. Entd. 3. 244.” sec. 
Trattinnick synod. 2. 167. Spreng. syst. 2. 547. Lindl. ros. mon. ed. 
gall. 38. Seringe in Dec. prodr. 2. 604. 
Obs. Descriptio in Rosarum Monographia, qupad stipulas, erronea ; plana 
sunt nec convolutce, ut, exemplare manco gelato, olim credidi; cceteroquin 
sat Jidelis. 
It has been the fate of this rose to have been the subject 
of error or misapprehension with every author who has 
noticed it. 
It was first mentioned in a little work on the nomen¬ 
clature of Roses, by M. Pronville; and stated, upon the 
authority of a cheating gardener, to bear yellow flowers, 
with a black centre. It was subsequently named and 
published by the writer of these remarks, and its natural 
station in the genus was assigned to it; but the specimens 
which were examined for that purpose, were so imn0tfect, 
that, upon a comparison of the character ascribes to the 
species with fresh specimens, they were ascertained to 
be materially erroneous; the stipulae, which were stated 
to possess the remarkable peculiarity of being convolute, 
like those of R. Carolina, proving to be, in fact, plain, like 
those of R. lucida. 
It appears from Trattinnick’s Synodus, that the next 
notice which was taken of the species was by Sprengel, in 
the 3d volume of his Neue Entdeckungen, a work we have 
not at hand. In this publication, the specific character 
