ROSA RUBELLA. 41 
smooth and prickly stems and petioles; the prickles 
being capillary but dense; all which answers well 
enough to rubella, but by no means to alpina. Thus, 
if my conjectures be correct, it was noticed long before 
it was discovered in England and published in English 
Botany as new, but with a very erroneous account of it. 
What is said in Rees’s Cyclopedia about the inflexed 
calyx is equally applicable to R. spinosissima; and I 
fear the observation of Mr. Backhouse, that the leaves 
fold together at night, must have originated in mistake, 
as I never have been able to discover such a disposition 
in any of the genus, although I have repeatedly watched 
or it. 
Mr. Woods first remarked that the stems and 
branches covered with setz, intermixed with a very 
few aculei, sufficiently distinguish it from R. spinosis- 
sima. To this Imust add the long red pendulous fruit, 
which that gentleman had not seen. From R. stricta 
it is more difficult to discriminate it. Their principal 
differential characters I shall notice under that species. 
R. polyphylla of the supplement to Willdenow’s 
enumeratio, for an opportunity of consulting which I am 
obliged to my friend Mr. Ker, appears to differ in no 
respect from this, and the R. suavis of the same work 
seems equally referable to my R. stricta. 
Variety @ is just intermediate between R. rubella 
and spinosissima. I procured it from Mr. Lee’s nursery, 
under the name of rubella. 
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