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Rosa MuLTIFLORA. BRAMBLE-FLOWERED 
Rose. 
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Claf/s and Order. 
IcosANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coarc« 
tatus. Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. 
Specific Charaéter and § ynOnYMS. 
ROSA multiflora ; germinibus ovatis pedunculifque inermibus 
villofis, caule petiolif{que aculeatis. Thunb. Fap. 214. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p.1077. Syft. Vegetab. Murr. 474. 
Mart. Mill. Did. n. 30. ge 
ROSA flava. Donn’s Cat, p. 1241. 
Descr. Stem fhrubby, ereét, tall, fmooth, prickly. Branches 
round, fmooth, prickly. Prick/es {cattered, recurved. Leaves 
alternate, on long downy footftalks, with here and there a {mall 
recurved prickle: /eaflets oppofite, feffile, ovate, ferrate, {mooth 
on the upper furface, downy on the under, veins running 
parallel from the midrib to the edge. Szipule adnate to the 
bafe of the petiole, dentate, cleft above into two long fubulate 
fegments. Flowers in a terminal panicle very like double 
flowering bramble. Peduncle and pedicles downy, unarmed. 
Calyx very hairy. Séy/es filiform hairy. 
Our drawing of this lively and agreeable Rofe was taken at 
Mefirs, Corvitve’s, in the King’s-Road, where it flowered 
freely in July laft. We believe that the country owes the 
introduétion of this Rofe from China to Mr. Evans, of the 
Eaft-India Houfe, by whom it has been liberally diftributed ; 
and its flowering has been expefted with fome degree of in- 
tereft, as its bloffoms were fuppofed to have been yellow ; 
whence 
