ROSA FEROX. 3 
Div. If. Feroces. Rami tomento persistente vestiti. 
Fructus nudus. 
Plants with these characters form a very small but strictly 
natural assemblage. They are low shrubs, losing their leaves 
early in the autumn, and are then remarkable for thick hoa 
branches bristly with numerous prickles. Their fruit, whic 
never has any pubescence, readily distinguishes them from the 
next, in which the down is very conspicuous. 
2. ROSA ferox. 
- armis confertissimis ineequalibus conformibus. 
. ferox. Lawr.roses. t. 42. Br! in Ait. kew. ed. alt. 
3. 262. Smith in Rees inl. Lindley in Edwards's 
Reg. t. 420. 
R. Kamechatica Redout. Roses. 1. 47. t. 12. 
Hab. in Caucaso, (Aiton.) (v. v. cult.) 
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Four or five feet high. Branches downy, procum- 
bent, covered all over with unequal rigid, straightish, 
pale, pubescent prickles and a few setze. Leaves shin- 
ing, bright green, rugose; stipule large, dilated up- 
wards, downy, curled at the edge and glandular, naked 
above; petioles downy, with a few setz and prickles; 
the latter yellow, slender and nearly straight; leaflets 
5-9 elliptic, retuse, simply (seldom doubly) serrated, 
naked above, hairy beneath and paler; their veins un- 
usually close. Flowers large, red, solitary; bractee 
none, or large, nearly orbicular, pilose, serrated, fringed 
with glands; peduncle downy; tube of the calyx obo- 
vate, naked; sepals narrow, triangular, sometimes dis- 
posed to become compound, downy; petals obcordate, 
concave, crumpled; stamens 150-185; disk little ele- 
vated; ovaria 50-60; styles villous, distinct, a little 
exserted. Fruit globose, scarlet, covered with a deli- 
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