248 47. B0SACE.3E : rose^;. 



vertence, as it has adnate persistent stipules, and otherwise 

 exactly agrees with Lindley's description and the plant cultivated 

 in this country under the name of Rosa anemoneeflora. 



2. Eosa acicularis, Lindl. Rosar. Monogr. p. 44, t. 8 ; Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 260 ; Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiv. p. 5, 

 et in Comptes-re?idus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxv. 2. p. 14 ; Hegel, Tent. 

 Ros. Monogr. p. 18 (varietates plures). 



Chihli : in the mountains of Siaowutaishan (Hancock !). Mus. 

 Brit. 



Nearly all round the north temperate zone. 



[Rosa alba, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 393) should probably have 

 been R. moschataJ\ 



3. Rosa Banksise, R. Br. in Ait. Sort. Keiv. ed. 2, iii. p. 258 ; 

 Lindl. Ros. Monogr. p. 131 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1954 ; Bot. Reg. t. 397 ; 

 Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xiv. p. 162, etxv. p. 233, in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxv. 2. p. 7 ; Regel, Tent. Ros. Monogr. 

 p. 91, excl. /3. microcarpa ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 115. 



Rosa inermis, Ro.vb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 516. 



Hupeh : hanging from rocks at Icbang Gorge and Nanto dis- 

 trict (A. Henry !) ; Shensi : an sponte ? (David ex Franchet) ; 

 Yunnan (David ex Crepin). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan. 



Dr. A. Henry sends both flowering and fruiting specimens. 

 He describes the flowers as white ; and this species appears from 

 his notes to be perfectly wild in the province of Hupeh. 



Rosafragariceflora,8eT. (DC. Prodr. ii. p. 601 ; Ic. PI. Chin, e 

 Bibl. Braam, t. 28), is apparently the wild state of R. Banksice, 

 being no more prickly than Dr. Henry's Ichang specimens. 

 Braam's figure is probably the unpublished drawing cited by 

 Lindley (Ros. Monogr. p. 130) under his R. microcarpa ; and the 

 microcarpa attributed to Braam (Walp. Rep. ii. p. 12)*, though 

 the description does not agree. G-enuine microcarpa, as we 



* Walpers cites numbers for Braam's plates, and gives short, yet very inac- 

 curate, descriptions without any indication of their origin or authorship. 

 Neither Pritzel nor Daydon Jackson mentions this book, of which there are 

 two copies in the Kew Library, both with unnumbered plates, differently 

 arranged. One has a printed titlepage, dated 1821, and a short Latin preface 

 in which Rosa microcarpa and It. involucrata are mentioned. The other has a 

 lithographed titlepage dated 18l#, and an " advertisement" signed W. Cattley. 



