Tas. 8513. 
ROSA FOLIOLOSA. 
North America. 
Rosa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625. 
Rosa (Carolinae) foliolosa, Nutt. ea Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. vol. i. p. 460; 
S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xx. p. 349; Gard. & For. 1890, pp. 100, 
101, fig. 22; affinis R. nitidae, Willd., ramulis laevibus vel sublaevibus, 
stipulis et foliolis elongatis et angustis, sepalisque elongatis et minus 
hispidis differt. 
Fruticulus nanus, circiter 0°25-0°5 m. alti. Ramuli_laeves vel aculeis paucis 
rectis gracilibus armati, glabri. Fvlia sparsa, 5-7 cm. longa, 7-9-foliolata ; 
rhachis sparse pilosa, foliola breviter petiolulata, lanceolata vel lineari- 
oblonga, acuta, serrulata, supra glabra, subtus sparse pubescentia, 2°5 
em. longa, 0°6-1°3 cm. lata; stipulae adnatae, lineares vel angustissime 
oblongae, acutae vel breviter acuminatae, minute glanduloso-ciliatae, 
2-2:5 cm. longae. Flores speciosi, coccineo-rosei, 5-5°5 cm. diametro, in 
ramulorum brevium apicibus pauci vel solitarii, pedunculi 1-1°5 cm. longi, 
glanduloso-setulosi. Receptaculum globosum, glanduloso-setulosum, 5 mm. 
longum. Calycis lobi oblongo-lanceolati, longissime acuminati, glanduloso- 
setulosi, 2-2-5 cm. longi, patentes vel subreflexi. Petala lata, obcordata. 
Filumenta glabra, 4-5 mm. longa, antheris aureis. Fructus globosus, 
glanduloso-setulosus, 8-10 mm. longus. <Achaenia stylisque villosa.— 
R. A. Rous. 
The Rose here figured, which is one of the most distinct 
of the American species, has been described as the South- 
Western Prairie Rose owing to its being apparently re- 
stricted to the prairie region of Arkansas, northern and 
central Texas and the Indian territory. It is well charac- 
terised by its very dwarf habit, its running rootstocks and 
its fragrant carmine blossoms. It was originally discovered 
by Nuttall during his Arkansas visit in 1818-20, but was 
not published by Torrey & Gray until twenty years later, 
and after it had been met with in Texas by Berlandier, 
Drummond and others. The garden history of 2. foliolosa 
is somewhat obscure. It was, according to a manuscript list 
of the trees and shrubs in cultivation at Kew prepared in 
1880 by Sir Joseph Hooker, already in the Kew collection 
at that date, but as late as 1890 it was still deemed a rare 
plant at Harvard, Massachusetts. The material for our 
illustration has been obtained from a plant in the garden of 
Canon Ellacombe at Bitton, where it was n flower as late 
SepremBer, 1913. 
