4 ROSA FEROX. 
cate bloom: upper part of the peduncle naked : peri- 
carps pale yellow, hairy. 
The hedgehog Rose, by which name this is known 
in the gardens, seems to have been first noticed by 
Miss Lawrance, who probably obtained it from the 
very extensive collection of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy ; 
for by those indefatigable cultivators it was first intro- 
uced. 
M. Thory has strangely confounded it with R. 
a gee which he considers has been brought to be 
R. ferox by cultivation. How improbable is such a 
change must be sufficiently evident to any one who has 
carefully seen the two in a living state. Besides the 
distinction in the arms on which their specific character 
is founded, I may add that R. kamchatica is a taller 
plant than R. ferox; its leaves are opaque, not shining, 
sinaller, and with a different outline, changing colour 
and falling off in the very beginning of autumn, lon 
before those of R. ferox are withered; its fruit is also 
smaller and shorter than the sepals, which do not ap- 
pear to have any disposition to become compound. In 
R. feror, on the contrary, the calyx is more fre- 
quently compound than otherwise; in more than one 
instance I have observed the segments so much divided 
that two were perfect leaves ; the others becoming less 
obviously so in the order of the old distich. 
If kept in a vigorous state by close pruning, this 
plant is very beautiful, on account of its fine, showy, 
crimson blossoms, which appear before those of the 
more common and fragrant species. 
