ROSA LAXA. 19 
rous, slender prickles, and a few sete intermingled. 
Leaves not shining, thickset ; stipules narrow, broader 
towards their end, where they are recurved, naked ex- 
cept at the margin, which is glandular ; petioles downy, 
reddish-green, furnished with weak prickles, sete and 
glands; leaflets 7-9, elliptic-lanceolate, glaucous, na- 
ked, waved, with i inconspicuous veins. Flowers rose- 
coloured, growing usually in pairs; bractec ovate and 
fringed, otherwise naked; flower-stalks glandular ; 
tube of the calyx spherical, ‘armed with some seta ; se- 
pals triangular, lanceolate, nearly entire, a little dilated 
at the end, shorter than the petals, hairy, glandular 
and setigerous on the outside, especially at the base ; 
petals flat; disk almost obliterated. Fruit unknown. 
Frequently cultivated under the name of the spread- 
ing Carolina Rose. It is net however with R. carolina 
that it can be confounded, since its whole habit, glau- 
cous leaves, and open stipulee, permanently distinguish 
it. RR. lucida is much more nearly allied to it; they 
differing chiefly in the following respects, but as. it 
seems sufficiently. The strongest rootshoots of R. axa 
have scarcely any prickles, its branches are much more 
spreading and slender, very often unarmed, the leaves 
never shine and are always remarkable for their glau- 
cous hue; there seems to be no disposition to produce 
fruit in this, while #. lucida bears it abundantly. 
Their period of flowering is also different ; that of lu- 
cida being in the autumn, of daxa early in the summer. 
I have never seen wild specimens, but there can be no 
doubt of its native country. It is very uncertain whe- 
ther Miss Lawrance’s spreading Carolina be this or not. 
