ROSA REVERSA. BY 
exceedingly dissimilar. R. tnvoluta is a little dark 
bush, with involute petals and very dense prickles ; its 
leaves usually naked or nearly so on their upper surface, 
and its fruit never ripening in a cultivated state. R. 
Sabini is, on the contrary, a tall plant from 5 to 10 
feet high. When its prickles are mixed with setz the 
largest of the former are falcate; when there are no 
setze, they are straight. The leaves are hairy on both 
sides, sometimes hoary, and the fruit usually comes to 
perfection in the gardens. 
36. ROSA reversa. 
R. armis setaceis subzqualibus reflexis, foliolis dupli- 
cato-serratis pubescentibus, fructu hispido 
R. reversa Waldst. & Kitaib. hung. 3. 293. t. 264. 
Hab. locis saxosis montium Matre, (W. & K.) 
A shrub in its wild state two or three, in a culti- 
vated five feet high and more. Stems much branched, 
on their lower half covered with weak, brown, equal, 
defiexed prickles (setze?) Leaves pale, yellow green ; 
petioles furnished with sete; leaflets ovate, acute, finely 
and doubly serrated, naked above, downy beneath: 
the middle nerve is glandular. Flowers solitary, white 
tinged with pink; stalks and calyx hispid; tube ovate ; 
sepals nearly entire; petals emarginate concave. Fruit 
ovate, dark purple, hispid, crowned by the sepals. W. 
& K. 
This was discovered in Hungary by Waldstein and 
Kitaibel, who published a good figure of it in their fine 
work on the rare plants of that country. It seems, as 
far as can be ascertained from their account of it, to be 
related to R. spinosissima on the one hand and to imvo- 
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