32 ROSA DAVURICA. 
20. ROSA davurica. 
R. elatior ramosissima, ramis tenuibus coloratis, aculeis 
stipularibus patentissimis subrecurvis, stipulis li- 
ringed er oblongis rugosis subtus tomentosis 
alté serr 
R. davuriea ai ross. 61. 
Hab. in Davuriz et Mongolix transalpine apricis et 
betuletis, cum Spiraea chameedrifolia, oe: copio- 
sissima et simul florens Junio (Pall.) 
Often five feet high, erect, much branched, with 
slender, rigid, brownish, smooth branches, and stipu- 
lary, twin, spreading, a little recurved, grey prickles. 
Stipules narrow, toothletted; petioles downy, unarmed; 
leaflets 7, nearly equal, lanceolate, entire at the base, 
the serratures increasing in depth towards the end, 
some nearly blunt and crenate, others acute, all pubes- 
cent beneath. Peduncles smooth, involucrated by a 
leaf and bractea; sepals downy at the edge, with a 
narrow foliaceous end, somewhat longer than the petals. 
Petals deep red, entire, large. Fruit red, ovate. 
Pallas. 
The specimens in Pallas’s herbarium answer by no 
means to this, but seem to be rather of a variety of 
R. reversa. It must therefore remain in the obscurity 
in which I find it. Had Pallas given his usual atten- 
tion to Roses, I should have thought it probable this 
might be cinnamomea, to which it is certainly very 
near and which he does not mention; although there 
is no doubt of its growing in the countries he visited. 
But the characters given above seem sufficient to dis- 
tinguish it, especially the long spreading prickles and 
narrow stipules. 
