TAB. 7646. 
ROSA AOICULARIS, var. NIPPONENSIS. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe Rose x. 
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa. (Pimpinellifolie) oe i frutex ‘encins, ramosus, trunco setoso v. 
subinerme, ramis ramulis gracilibus pedanculisque setosis, foliis 2-4- 
pollicaribus, rhachi gracile setoso, foliolis ellipticis, stipulis oblongis, 
. floribus solitariis gracile pedunculatis ebracteatis, calycis tubo oblongo, | 
-__ lobis anguste linearibus corollam squantibus v. superantibus i integerrimis — 
: ce tomentosis apicibus dilatatis, petalis sanguineo-roseis, } 
.- subereetis pharrell: ealycis laciniis conniventibus coronatis. ‘ 
~ as acicularis, Lindl. Monog. Ros. p: 44, t. 8. C. A. Meyer in Mém. ; 
Pétersb, Sér. 6, vol. vi. p. 15. Regel i in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. y. Pp. 
& 525. 
R. Gmelini, Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Altaic. vol. ii. p. 228. Bong. Veg. Saiouiti 4 
Nor. Pf. 33. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p..75. Karel & Kiril. in * Soc. Nat. — 
Mose. (1841), p. 419. C. A. Meyer, lc. p. 17. 
R. alpina, Pall. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 61 (non Linzn.). 
R. carelica, Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 171. 
R. acicularis, var. 8 Gmelini, Regel ex Maxim. in Herb. It. Seeund. (vmen). 
“ar. NIPPONENSIS ; ramulis pedunculisque glanduloso-setosis. 
R. nipponensis, Crepin in Bull: Soc. Bot. ~ vol. xiv. atin! Pp 7, me 
in textu, : 
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Not. being a specialist in the , genus % 
my determinatio Sa name 
git the leaves. wi béon ecaiolis led by De 
) - ji, 611) and others with R. alpina, L., of 
a Pyrenees, &e., of which it is the northern representat 
and which is distinguished, amongst other characters, by 
its nodding oblong or ellipsoid fruits. — 
- The var. nipponensis has no other character than iis 
glandular prickles of the young branches and peduncles. =. 
These glandular prickles I find on Siberian spon of 
Marcu Ist, 1899. 
