Descr. A climbing, much branching shrub, with very long, 
flexible, green branches, clothed with a beautiful smooth bark, 
and bearing scattered, rather large, uncinate prickles, which are 
often gemimate at the setting on of the leaves. Petioles often 
tinged with purple, grooved on the upper side, generally, but not 
always, beset with several small, uncinate prickles; at the base 
are two small semiadnate, linear-lanceolate, yellowish, deciduous 
stipules, serrated and somewhat glandular. Leaffets three, rarely 
five, and in the latter case the two lowermost are much the small- 
est ; the rest an inch anda half, and sometimes (the terminal one) 
two inches long, broadly lanceolate, somewhat rigid, evergreen, 
perfectly glabrous, shining, dark green above, paler beneath ; 
the margins beautifully serrated, with the teeth almost setigerous, 
the nerves indistinct, the midrib beneath mostly very prickly. 
Petiole hispid above. Flower solitary, very large, fragrant. 
Calyx tube ovate, very hispid: the segments pubescent, spreading, 
soon reflexed, much — entire. Petals pure mae, waved, 
obeordate, very. obtuse, approaching to triangular. Stigmas 
collected into a head in fuente of a yellow, fleshy disk. ¥ 
The plant which produced the flower here figured in the stove 
of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, was sent to that Institution 
by Mr. James Witson, from Savannah, with the name of the 
Cherokee Rose; under which appellation, I believe, it has long 
been known in British collections ; though it has never, to my 
knowledge, blossomed in any of them. Our plant was trained up 
to one of the rafters of the building, and in that situation bore 
its very large, pure white, and fragrant flowers in May, 1828. 
There can be no doubt of its being the Rosa laevigata of 
Micuavx and the American Botanist, who describes it as a 
native of Georgia, growing in shady woods, and climbing up trees 
to a great height. It has, however, altagethes the peculiar habit 
of the Chinese Roses, and, cultivated in the same stove with Rosa 
sinica, which we have received direct from its native country, 
there does not appear the slightest marks of distinction; and Mr. 
Linpxey, in his valuable Monograph, notices their great simi- 
larity. So that to me it seems more than probable, that Rosa 
sinica has been imported into North America, either from China, 
or from our European gardens; an idea which is much strength- 
ened, if not confirmed, by an observation made by Mr. Ex.iorz, 
in his Fora, of South Carolina and Georgia: ‘* This has been 
cultivated in the gardens of Georgia for upwards of forty years, 
— the name of the ‘Cherokee Rose,’ but its origin is still 
“ In ‘our rural economy,” Mr. Exxiort continues, “ This 
plant will one day become very important. For the purpose of 
forming hedges, there = peshege no plant which unites so many 
advantages ; and in quickness of growth, facility of culture, 
strength, durability, and beauty, it has perhaps no rival.” 
i Fis. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed, natural size. 2. 
ens.—Magnified. 
