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* * Southern Evergreen Roses, from China. Flowers white. 

 R. LAEVIGATA, Michx. Cherokee Rose. Climbing, with very stout 

 reciirved scattered spines : stipules very short and narrow ; leaflets 3, 

 smooth and shining, very sharply serrulate : flowers large, solitary, the 

 pedicels naked or prickly above ; sepals entire, somewhat prickly, 

 spreading and persistent: fruit very prickly, oblong-ovate with a 

 long-attenuate base, an inch long or more. — Fl. Bor.-Am., 1. 295. 

 R. Cheroheensis^ Doun. R. Sinica, Lindl. Ros. Mouogr. 126, t. IG 

 (not Murray, Alton, etc.) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2847. 

 Hab. Very common in the Southern States, and often used for hedges. 



R. BRACTEATA, Wendl. 3Tacartncy Rose. Stem armed with very 

 stout curved spines and glandular-prickly, the branches, calyx, and 

 fruit covered with persistent dense tomeutum : stipules and bracts 

 laciniate ; leaflets 3 to 9, small, oblong-obovate or elliptical, very ob- 

 tuse, crenulate-serrulate : flowers solitary, nearly sessile between the 

 bracts : fruit globose. 



IIab. South Carolina to Louisiana, but not common. 



2. Descriptions of some New Species of Plants, chiefly from our 



Western Territories. 



CniiciFDGA LACiNiATA. Tall : leaves thin, 3-ternate with the di- 

 visions 3-parted or deeply lobed, the acuminate segments coarsely 

 laciniate-toothed, nearly glabrous: panicle thinly tomentose-pubescent ; 

 pedicels 1 to G lines long: petals usually present, and filaments un- 

 equal: ovaries 2 to 5, shortly stipitate, pubescent. — At Lost Lake on 

 Mount Hood, Oregon, at 3,000 feet altitude. Collected by Mrs. P. 0. 

 Barrett, of Hood River, in September, 1882, and again in 1884, as 

 also by Mr. L. F. Henderson, of Portland. Resembling C. data, but 

 the leaves more decompound, and the segments more acuminate and 

 coarsely toothed. C. data has also shorter pedicels (scarcely a line 

 long), the flowers apetalous and filaments equal, and the one or two 

 ovaries glabrous. 



CiMiciFUGA Akizonica. Foliage similar to that of the last species, 

 but the leaflets more attenuate at the apex : raceme simple, pubescent 

 or glabrate, the pedicels mostly 1 or 2 lines long, or longer in fruit : 

 petals none : stamens equal : follicles sessile, usually 2 or 3, pubescent, 

 6 lines long, compressed, many- (about 15-) seeded: seeds densely 

 covered with conspicuous white scales. — Li a ravine on the northwest 

 side of Bill Willium.s' Mountain, Arizona, near the base ; collected by 



