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Rosa hispida. Hispid-stemmed Rose; 



Clafs and Order. 



IcOSANDRIA PoLYCYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Vetala 5. Cat. urceolatus, g-fidus, carnofus, collo coar&atus. 

 Sm. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateti affixa. 



Specific Characler and Synonym. 



ROSA hifpida • fruclibus globofis calycibufque glabris, aculeis 

 ramorum fctaceis confertis, itipulis linearibus. 



ROSA pimpinellifolia. Pallas Fl. Rofs. pars 2. p. 62. t. 76. t vix 

 JJmuei, 



The hifpid -ftemmed Rofe has been in the Apothecaries-Garden 

 at Chelfea very many years, and we find a fpecimen of the fame 

 ln the Bankfian Herbarium from the late Dr. Wm. PiTcairn'i 

 garden in Iflington, in the year 1781. 



It appears to us to be probably only a variety of the Rosa 

 punpttiellifolia of Pallas, though of lefs humble growth, grow- 

 ln g upright four or five feet high. Thcjlem is thickly covered 

 with ftraight thorns, fo (lender as hardly to be capable of wound- 

 ln g the hand ; Germen globular and quite fmooth ; fegments of * 

 tpe calyx entire, confiderably fhorter than the petals ; Jlipules 

 "near and long, attached almoft the whole of their length to the 

 Petiole, the detached extremities minutely glandular-ferrate; 

 petioles armed here and there with a minute thorn, as are fome- 

 times the midribs of the leaflet ; peduncles generally quite fmooth, 

 flowers folitary, of a pale yellow colour; anthers deep yellow, 

 Jar ge, moon-fhaped. 



The Rosa Kamchatka of Ven ten at, has a good deal of 

 affinity with our plant, but the flowers are red, and the leaves 

 m °re obovate and truncate at the tip. 



It is perfectly hardy. Its native country not certainly known, 

 Probably Siberia. 



What Linn^us really meant by his Rosa pimpinellifolia has 

 [?ot been fatisfaaorily explained, nor whether it be really diftinQ 

 ^om Rosa fpinojijfima % 



