ROSA NITIDA. 13 
Div. 1V. Cinnamomee. Setigerze v. inermes, bracteate. 
Foliola lanceolata eglandulosa. Discus tenuis 
eats ee 
Obs. R. alpina and acicularis, of the next division, sometim 
a bracteze, but their sepals never fall off till the fruit is de 
yed. 
9. ROSA nitida. Tab. 2. 
R. pumila, armis confertissimis gracilibus, foliolis ni- 
tidis angusté lanceolatis planis. 
R. nitida Willd. enum. 544. Pursh am. septr. 1 n. 3? 
Smith in Rees in l. 
R. rubrispina Bosc. dict. agr. p. 246? 
R. blanda Pursh! l. c.n. 1. et in suppl. 
R. Redutea rubescens Redout. ros. 1. 103. ¢. 36. 
Hab. in Terra nova, herb. Banks. (v. v.c. et s. sp. herb. 
Banks.) 
A low reddish bush. Branches erect, much divided, 
covered all over with very numerous slender prickles, 
unequal in size and interspersed with sete. Leaves 
very shining, dark green, changing to purple in the 
autumn ; stipule flattish, naked, fringed with 
entire or a little toothed, ovate at the Mis setsoles 
