44 ROSA ACICULARIS. 
spinis tenuibus et innoxiis deorsum flexis horridi” of 
Dillenius, which are not found on the R. pendulina of 
Aiton, to be essential to his species. In this state he 
left it. In the first edition of Hortus Kewensis the 
definition is altered to “inermis, germinibus oblongis, 
pedunculis petiolisque hispidis, caule ramisque glabris, 
fructibus pendulis,” clearly intended for the pendulina 
of our gardens. From what cause this change was 
made I cannot conjecture, for Dr. Solander, whose 
manuscripts were certainly used in the genus, was well 
aware of its not being the plant of Linnzus. Here ce 
however, the mistake originated, and the justly high 
authority of that excellent work has undoubtedly pre- 
vented its being sooner detected. 
27. ROSA acicularis. Tab. 8. 
R. elatior, aculeis acicularibus ineequalibus, foliolis 
glaucis rugosis convexiusculis, fructu obampullaceo 
cernuo. 
Hab. in Sibiria Bell. (v. v. ¢.) 
About eight feet high, compact. Branches erect, 
the younger glaucous, the adult ones brownish, clothed 
with unequal, very slender straight prickles and a few 
sete. Leaves dense, opaque, very glaucous; stipule 
narrow, without hairs, fringed with glands, a little di- 
lated at the end; petioles pale green, naked, or a little 
pps slender, with very long joints ; leaflets about 7, 
a very thin texture, oval, convex, a little rugose, 
stints serrated, the teeth diver ging, nearly without 
hairiness, very ceesious on their under side. Flowers 
solitary, pale blush, fragrant; bractew ovate, convex, 
naked, shorter than the naked peduncle; tube of the 
