hi os 
ROSA SPINOSISSIMA. 51 
R. seotica Mill. dict. n. 5. 
R. collina Schrank baiers. fl. n. 774. fide Rau. 
{ reversa, pumila, armis gracillimis: inferioribus de- 
flexis, fructu ovato. 
R. spinosissima Jacg. fragm. 79. t. 124? nana An- 
drews’s roses ? reversa Lindl. in bot. reg. t. 431. 
y platycarpa, pumila, fructu depresso et pedunculo 
setoso. 
3 pilosa, pumila, foliis acutis infra pilosis. 
¢ turbinata, pumila, fructu turbinato. 
€ Pallasii, elatior, armis subeequalibus confertis. 
R. i re Pall! ross. 62. t. 75. < Redout. ros. 
R. altaica Willd. enum. 543. 
7 rossica, elatior, aculeis longis gracillimis. 
3 islandica, elatior, aculeis maximis falcatis. 
R. hibernica Hooker ! Iceland. in app. 
: sanguisorbifolia, elatior, foliolis 9-11 oblongis, fructu 
depresso-globoso. 
R. sanguisorbifolia Donn! cant. ed. 8. 169. 
Hab. « in montosis maritimisq. totius Europe copiose ; 
etiam in Caucaso, (Bieberstein); y, 3, <« Hibernia, 
Hooker ; 2 Rossia, Pallas ; Caucaso, (Bieb.) ; 7 Ros- 
sia, Pallas; 3 Islandia, Hooker; (v. v.c. & s. sp. 
¢ herb. Banks, 4 herb. Smith, 3 herb. Hooker.) 
Obs. species quoad magnitudinem, fructuum superficiem et pe- 
dunculorum miré varians. ami nunc subinermes, tortuosi, 
aut stricti, nunc graciles, aculeatissimi; quo juniores, €o ar- 
matiores. Varietas 9 facie diversissima est. 
A dwarf, compact, dark (sometimes reddish) green 
bush, with creeping roots. Branches short, stiff, much 
divided, beset by very dense, unequal prickles and 
sete; some of the former being usually falcate. Leaves 
close together, quite free from pubescence; stipule 
either narrow or dilated, eee: equal breadth; pe- 
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