22 ROSA WOODSII. 
prickles, with a few setz at their base, the former be- 
coming stipulary towards the extremities ; branchlets 
often unarmed. Leaves without pubescence ; stipules 
very narrow and acute, convolute and fringed with 
glands; stalks armed with straight unequal prickles ; 
leaflets 7-9, shaped like those of R. rubella, shining, 
flat, simply serrated, paler beneath. Flowers pink, 
appearing in the spring. Fruit naked, ovate, with 
short, connivent, entire sepals which are free from 
glands as is the peduncle. 
As it is scarcely probable that any new British rose 
will be detected, worthy of bearing the name of Mr. 
Woods, of whose high merit I have already had occa- 
sion to speak, the present species has been selected by 
Mr. Sabine and myself for that purpose. That it is 
essentially distinct from every other is very evident 
even from the incomplete account I have been able to 
give of it. I first saw it growing in Mr. Sabine’s gar- 
den at North Mimms late in the month of November; 
most of the leaves had fallen, but a few heps still re- 
mained on the bush. Its habit without foliage bears 
more resemblance to that ofa stunted cimmamomea than 
to any thing else. In character it approaches R. caro- 
lina, particularly in the remarkable convolution of sti- 
From this its numerous ramifications, weak 
prickles and short shining leaves sufficiently distinguish 
it. It moreover flowers in the spring and has naked 
fruit with conniving sepals. 
_ Tam assured by Mr. Sabine that this is the plant 
which was sent to France from a nursery here as a new 
American Rose with black and yellow flowers, and no- 
ticed as such in Promville’s book. 
Said to be a native of the country near the Mis- 
_souri. 
