as the end of August, 1912. Asa garden rose Rf. foliolosa 
is charming in the bright colouring of its petals and in its 
dwarf stature. Owing to its habit of spreading by under- 
ground suckers it is easily increased by division. In rich 
deep loam, such as it experiences in the Bitton garden, this 
species succeeds admirably. 
Descriprion.—Shrub of dwarf habit, 1-13 ft. high; 
twigs smooth or armed with a few straight slender prickles, 
glabrous. Leaves scattered, 2-3 in. long; rachis sparingly 
pilose; leaflets 7-9, shortly petiolulate, lanceolate or linear- 
oblong, acute, serrulate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent 
beneath, 3-2 in. long, 4-4 in, wide, stipules adnate, linear 
or very narrowly oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, finely 
glandular-ciliate, 3-1 in. long. Flowers showy, cardinal- 
red, 2-24 in. across, few or solitary at the tips of short 
twigs; peduncles 4-3 in. long, glandular-setulose. Re- 
ceptacle globose, glandular-setulose, } in. long. Calyzx-lobes 
oblong-lanceolate, glandular-setulose, 3—1 in, long, spreading 
or somewhat reflexed. Petals broadly obcordate. Fila- 
ments glabrous, 3} in. long; anthers golden yellow. 
Fruit globose, glandular-setulose, over 1 in, long.  Achenes 
and styles villous. 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf, showing the base of the leaflets and the free portion 
of the glandular stipules; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, achene with style :—all enlarged. 
