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pus in beauty to the most splendid varieties of gallica. 
ts elegant unexpanding blossoms of the most delicate 
pink and its dwarf compact habit have made it an 
universal favourite, notwithstanding the difficulty of 
cultivating and especially of propagating it. I have 
seen it succeed best in such soil as American plants are 
in general found to require. Ehbrhart, with his usual 
accuracy, was the first to point out the peculiarities 
which distinguish it from R. carolina and lucida. I 
unfortunately neglected to preserve any notes of the 
R. parviflora from Muhlenberg in Sir James Smith’s 
herbarium; but from his observations I cannot help 
thinking they must be of R. lucida; especially as he 
quotes Miss Lawrance’s figures under R. carolina, 
which would scarcely have been the case had the 
true plant been before him. And yet the R. carolina 
of Sm. Insects of Georgia is very likely to be this, as 
was first noticed in Rees’s Cyclopedia. JI am obliged 
to M. Achille Richard for an ample description of R. 
caroliniana of Michaux’s herbarium, which confirms 
the propriety of referring it hither. In Mr. Lambert's 
collection is a garden specimen with almost linear 
leaves. 
14. ROSA Woodsii. 
R. stipulis sepalisque conniventibus, foliolis oblongis ob- 
sal : 
R. lutea nigra Promv. nomencl. 24. 
Hab. juxta flumen Missouri Americz septentrionalis 
(v. v. c. hort. Sabine.) 
In honorem cel. Josephi Woods qui primus veris Ro- 
sarum characteribus ad species distinguendas usus 
est, 
ee 
A low shrub with upright, dull, dark branches, 
having very numerous, straight, slender, scattered 
