14 ROSA NITIDA. 
slender, naked ; leaflets 3-7, narrow lanceolate, naked, 
simply serrated, their veins inconspicuous. Cymes 
one or few flowered ; bractew polished, ovato-lanceo- 
late, waved, revolute; flower-stalks covered with nearly 
equal seta ; tube of the calyx setose, spherical or nearly 
so; sepals very narrow, shorter than the petals, without 
setose and downy. Petals obcordate, very red and 
brilliant, concave, nearly erect ;_ stamens 100-130; disk 
a little thickened and flattened. Ovaria 30-35 ; styles 
disengaged, villous, included. Fruit bright scarlet, 
depressedly spherical, somewhat hispid. 
A pretty little species, with very bright red, cup- 
shaped flowers, widely different from R. blanda, with 
which Pursh certainly confounded it; for it was from 
an inspection of this growing in Mr. Sabine’s garden 
that he altered the specific character of blanda in his 
supplement. Possibly he meant something else by ni- 
tida, but what that was there are unfortunately no 
materials for determining. It is commonly called the 
dwarf Labrador Rose in the gardens. Miss Lawrance’s 
t. 27 seems to be a miserable figure of this, and yet 
the learned author of the monograph in Rees’s Cyclo- 
peedia cites it to blanda, following the second edition 
of Hortus Kewensis. R. rubrispina of M. Bosc I have 
little doubt in referring here; and R. Redutea rubescens 
of Redouté is certainly our plant; what resemblance 
there can be between it and the original R. Redutea I 
am quite at a loss to discover. 
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