ROSA. 
Diy. I. Simplicifolia. Folia simplicia exeiiabite: (Re- 
ceptaculum impube Pall.) 
1. ROSA berberifolia. 
R. simplicifolia Salish. hort. allert. 359. Parad. lond. 
16]. c. fig. Olivier voy. 5. 49. atl. t. 43. 
R. berberifolia. Pall. in nov. act. petr. 10. 379. t. 10. 
Je. illd. sp. 2. 1063. Ait. kew. ed. 40 3. 258. 
Smith in Rees. inl. Redout. ros. 1. 27. t 
Hab. prope Amadan abundé solo salito, sea (Oli- 
vier); in campis infra jugum montium Elvind, 
(Olivier); deserto Songarico, (Sievers). (v. s. Sp. 
herb. Banks.) 
Two or three feet high, (a foot high, Olivier,) very 
czsious. Branches slender, pubescent, covered wit 
sete, which disappear on the branchlets; prickles 
slender, falcate, with a remarkably elongated base 
slightly downy, sometimes compound ; placed below 
the leaves, which are sessile, erect, simple, narrow, 
obovate, simply toothed towards the end, densely pu- 
bescent, unarmed, almost veinless ; stipulee "none ; 
flowers ‘solitary, without bracteze, cupshaped (sweet- 
scented, Olivier); tube of the calyx downy, nearly 
round, and covered with oe pale, unequal 
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