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14 ROSA VILLOSA. 
44. ROSA villosa. 
R. foliolis ellipticis obtusis, fractu maximo armis. ri- 
' gidis confertis horrido, sepalis viscosis hispidis. _ 
R. villosa Linn. sp. pl. 704. Willd. sp. 2.1069. Smith! 
britt. 2. 538. Eng. bot! 583. Ait. kew. ed. alt. 
3. 260. Bieb. taur. cauc. 2,395. Decand. fl. fr. 
4. 440. Smith in Rees in l. Rau enum. 150. 
Redout. ros. 1. 67. t.. 22. excl. fig. fruct. (Lawr. 
ros. t. 29.) a 
R. pomifera Herm. diss. 16. Bork! holzx. 309. Gmel. 
bad. als, 2. 410. 
R. gracilis Woods! in act. linn. 12. 186. 3 
Hab. in Anglia septentrionali, Woods; Gallia, (De- 
cand.) ; circa Wirceburgum, (Rau); Tauriz mon- 
tibus sylvaticis, (Bieb.). (v. v. c. et s. sp.) 
The largest of the genus, sometimes forming a 
small tree, with a trunk as thick as a man’s arm. 
Branches dull, very glaucous, frequently without any 
tinge of red, armed with strong, straight, or somewhat 
falcate, equal prickles, either scattered or under the 
stipule ; branchlets with a few sete or none. Leaves 
usually very large and gray, densely downy every 
where; stipulee spreading, acute, finely-serrated and 
fringed with glands ; petiole glandular, with pale, fal- 
cate, unequal prickles; /eaflets about 5, very unequal, 
elliptical, flat, rugose, with a turpentine smell when 
bruised, very coarsely and doubly serrated, the ser- 
_vatures diverging. Flowers in pairs, either blue or deep 
red, of a middling size; bractece large, ovate, concave, 
rugose, hoary, nearly smooth above; peduncles very 
short, they and the calyx protected by rigid, unequal 
sete, and clammy with glands; tube ovate, glaucous ; 
sepals narrow, compound, spreading; petals longer 
than the last, obcordate, a little crenate at the edge ; 
