18 | ROSA LAXA: 
fruit ; tube of the calyx bristly, depressedly globose ; 
sepals simple, ovate with a long point, hairy and bristly 
on the outside; petals obovate, emarginate, a little 
longer than the sepals; disk flattened, not very thick ; 
receptacle frequently elevated in the centre; styles ex- 
tremely villous, but little exserted. Fruit depressedly 
globose, nearly naked, bright red. 
Not uncommon in gardens, producing its fine red 
blossoms early in the autumn. The differences between 
this and the last have been already indicated. From 
R. carolina and laxa its shining leaves immediately dis- 
tinguish it. The learned president of the Linnean so- 
ciety can scarcely have been well acquainted with the 
plant before us, or he would not have excluded the re- 
ference to Dillenius’s figure, which is a good repre- 
sentation of it, nor have quoted Miss Lawrance’s ¢. 75, 
the R. alpina @ of Aiton, which is undoubtedly Jac- 
quin’s R. blanda and my R. fraxinifolia. Yet fine 
wild specimens from Bigelow are in his herbarium, and 
from their ticket it appears that the species is conimon 
in marshy situations in North America. 
12. _ROSA laxa. Tab. 3. 
R. diffusa, ramulis vimineis subinermibus, foliolis ob- 
longis undulatis opacis glaucescentibus. 
R. carolina : Ait. kew. ed. alt. 3. 260. 
R. earolina pimpinellifolia Andrews’s roses? 
Hab. in America septentrionali (v. v. cult.) 
A spreading shrub with reddish brown, shining, 
wiry branches which have straightish prickles under 
the stipulze; the branchlets are usually unarmed ; the 
rootshoots covered all over their lower half with nume- 
