42 ROSA STRICTA. : 
26. ROSA stricta. Tab. 7. 
ramosissima, ramulis inermibus, fructu elongato 
pendulo. 
sanguisorbae majoris folio, fructu longo pendulo ex 
nova anglia Dill. elth. 325. t. 245. f. 317. 
virginiana Herm. diss. 19? 
pendulina Linn. sp. 705. 
stricta Muhl. cat. 50. 
R. carolina ¢ Ait. kew. ed. alt. 3.260.° Lawr. ros. t. 
36. (pessima). 
R. suavis Willd. enum. suppl. 37 ? 
Hab. in Americ septentrionalis Novanglia, (Dille- 
-_ nius); Pennsylvania, (Muhl.).  (v.v. ¢ ) 
tS i 
Branches erect, three or four feet high, pale green, 
covered all over with small, weak, nearly equal sete, 
except at the extremities, which are unarmed, like the 
very numerous, slender branchlets. Leaflets 9-11, 
roundish, of a firm texture, the lowest pair smaller than . 
the rest, glaucous. Flowers bright red. Fruit before 
maturity speckled with is Ba spots. Otherwise 
with the characters of R. rub 
Notwithstanding the close resemblance between 
this and the foregoing, I feel no hesitation in distia- 
guishing them. R. rubella has drooping very weak 
branches, surculi bending at the end, and hispid to 
their extreme points; its leaves are green, fruit small, 
ovaria from 12 to 18, pericarps ovate and somewhat 
pointed. R. stricta, on the contrary, has nearly erect 
branches and surculi and br anchlets without any his- 
pidity: its leaves are somewhat glaucous, fruit large 
and, before ripeness, covered with little pale blotches : 
the ovaries are from 25 to 35, and the pericarps are 
round, large, and much more hairy. Rubella frequently 
