2 ROSA BERBERIFOLIA. 
prickles, extending up the sepals, which are densely 
downy and entire; petals deep yellow with a dark 
crimson spot at their base ; stamens few; styles villous. 
(Fruit crowned with the sepals, pale green, depressedly 
globose, armed with numerous unequal prickles: pe- 
ricarps 25, oblong, blackish. Pall.) 
Although Mr. Salisbury’s name for this highly cu- 
rious plant was published before Pallas’s, and, as Sir 
James Smith observes, is much the best; yet, as ber- 
berifolia bas been almost universally adopted, I should 
scarcely be justified in giving up expediency to a right 
of priority, which, moreover, is supported only by the 
antecedency of a few months. Its whole appearance 
is remarkably unlike the rest of the genus. Indeed, 
the absence of stipulz, which cannot be metamor- 
phosed into aculei, as has been conjectured by M. de 
Jussieu, would almost induce us to look for a generic 
difference ; especially if the receptacle be destitute of 
hairs, as Pallas asserts, but which we have no means 
of ascertaining. Perhaps, however, it is not impro- 
bable that the whole plant may be aphyllous, supposing 
the apparent leaves to be confluent stipulz. No other 
Rose has compound aculei. 
Certain districts in the North of Persia and the de- 
sert of Songari in Chinese Tartary are the only stations 
recorded as producing the present lovely plant. It was 
found by Olivier covering the plains near Amadan, and 
in many other places in the same neighbourhood. If 
we may judge from the fine figure of M. Redouté, 
French gardeners must have the art of managing it 
much more successfully than our own. Possibly the 
soil in which it grows wild being salt may afford a hint 
fo those who may again have an opportunity of culti- 
vating it. It flowers in the spring. 
