than it is to R. Webbiana, but R. Willmottiae is a much 
smaller plant in all its parts than the subject of our plate. 
In gardens R. sertata will be valued for its graceful habit ; 
it makes long slender shoots which in the following season 
become gracefully arched and bear in mid-June a profusion 
of its beautiful flowers followed by richly coloured fruits, 
while it has the finely cut, daintily formed leaves and the 
glaucous stems that have rendered its allies R. Webbiana 
and £. Willmottiae such favourites among wild roses. It 
has so far succeeded well in stiff loam and gives promise of 
being a more vigorous shrub in gardens than R. Webbiana. 
So far the only experience of its propagation has been from 
seed, but it is probable that, like R. Webbiana, it may be 
increased by layers and perhaps by autumn cuttings, 
Description.— Shrub, branched, 3-5 ft. high; twigs 
glaucous, armed with straight, slender, geminate prickles 
over } in. long, rarely unarmed. Leaves clustered, 13—4 in. 
long, 7-11-foliolate, rachis sparingly glandular-setulose and 
prickly ; leaflets subsessile, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 
sharply toothed, glaucous beneath, 4-3 in. long, stipules 
adnate, narrow-oblong, acute or somewhat blunt, ciliate- 
glandular, } in. long. Flowers showy, rose or rose-purple, 
2-2} in. across, few or solitary at the ends of abbreviated 
twigs; peduncles 2-11 in. long, glandular-setulose or 
smooth. eceptacle narrow-ovoid, glandular-setulose or 
smooth, $-} in. long. Calyz lobes ovate-lanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate, sometimes leafy, puberulous, glandular-setulose 
or smooth, }—$ in. long, somewhat spreading. Petals wide- 
obcordate. Filaments glabrous, 1-1 in. long; anthers 
golden-yellow, Fruit ovoid, narrowed at the top, deep red, 
about # in, long, crowned by the persistent sepals. Achenes 
villous at the base and on the back, 1 in. long; styles villous, 
cohering in a column + in, long. 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens: 3, a our its: 
Which ta of wafer sie carpel; 4, ripe fruits:—all enlarged except 4, 
