ROSA BLANDA. 25 
16. ROSA blanda. 
R. elatior, armis deciduis, foliolis oblongis planis : 
petiolo piloso. 
R. blanda 6 Solander MSS! 
R. blanda dit! kew. 2. 202. Willd. sp. 2. 1065. 
Smith! in Rees in lL. sites 
Hab. in Americe septentrionalis ora occidentali, Men- 
zies. sinu a a herb. Banks (v. s. sp. herb. 
Banks & Smith 
Branches armed with scattered, pale, unequal, de- 
ciduous, straight prickles and seta. Leaves dull; sti- 
pules large, elliptical, rounded at the end and fringed 
with glands ; sta/ks unarmed, downy ; leaflets 5-7, lan- 
ceolate, or more usually oblong, simply serrated, naked 
above, downy at the rib beneath. Flowers large, re d, 
solitary ; peduncle and calyx unarmed: tube roundish ; 
sepals ovate, pointed, entire. 
Although this has been long cultivated, living 
plants have. never fallen in my way. The specimens 
from which my description has been drawn up, exist in 
the Banksian herbarium. From original documents in 
that invaluable collection, it appears that when the 
first edition of Hortus Kewensis, in which this was es- 
tablished, was published, Dr. Solander’s manuscripts 
were consulted, who had two different things before 
him. One of these was R. frazinifolia, which he 
inarks as R. blanda; and the other the present species, 
which he considered a variety. It so happened, how- 
ever, that the character given in the Hortus Kewensis 
was of that variety, which has therefore been univer- 
sally understood as the true plant; and the original 
blanda, figured, I may observe, by Jacquin as such, 
has almost as genérally been known under other 
names, as will be shown in the next species. No 
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