34 ROSA MAJALIS. 
22. ROSA majalis, 
R. humilior cesia ramis strictis coloratis, aculeis 
Sparsis subzequalibus, stipulis ete foliolis ob- 
longis planis subtus glaucis tomentos 
R. majalis Retz. obs. bot. 3. 33. Wahl! tom 141. 
R. mutica F/. dan. t. 688. 
R. spinosissima Gorter. ingr. 78. 
R. collincola Ehr. beitr. 2. 70. 
8 canescens, foliis albido-ceesiis. 
Hab. in Suecia, dfz. Swartz; Lapponia, (Wahl.); 
ae (fl. dan.); 6 in Suecia Afz. Swartz. (v. v. 
c. & s. sp.) 
Three or four feet high, very glaucous. Branches 
erect, virgate, with slender, straight prickles, either 
scattered or under the stipulz: rootshoots beset with 
very dense, pale, straight, nearly equal prickles and 
setae. Stipule narrow, incurved, naked, with a short 
end which is sometimes rounded ; petioles somewhat 
downy and glandular, with a few weak, pale, straight 
prickles ; leaflets usually 7, oval or obovate, obtuse, 
simply serrated, flat, very smooth, glaucous on both 
sides but especially beneath, where they are also a little 
downy. Flowers solitary, small, cyathiform, pale red; 
bractee solitary, oval, concave, pointed, naked; pe- 
duncle and calyx quite naked: tube round, small; 
sepals subsimple, pointed, longer than the petals : 
these emarginate; disk obscure ; styles distinct. Fruit 
orange-red, spherical, naked, crowned by the sepals, 
which are scarcely longer than itself. 
This species is confined to Sweden and Denmark, 
where it appears to be a very common plant. Its cha- 
racters are clear and its habit widely different from that 
of R. cinnamomea, with which it has been confounded. 
