ROSA LUTEA. 85 
R. punicea Mill, dict. n. 12. Du Roi harbk. 2. 347. 
Ross. ros. t. 5. 
R. cinnamomea Roth. germ. 1. 217. & 2. 554. 
R. lutea bicolor Jacq! vind. 1. t.1. Lawr. ros. t. 6. 
Sims bot. mag. n. 1077. Ait ! kew. 3. 258. Smith? 
in Rees in l. 
R. eglanteria punicea Redout. ros. 1.71. t, 24, 
Hab, circa Alliano, (Allioni); in sepibus Werthei 
sibus, (Wibel) ; in Gallia australi, Requien; circa 
Wirceburgum, (Rau); 6 in Austria. (v.v. c. & s. 
sp. herb, Hooker.) 
A nae bush, about four feet high. 
Branches somewhat erect, shining, dark brown, de- 
fended by pale, straight, nearly equal, scattered prickles 
and no setze; rootshoots more densely armed. Leaves 
somewhat shining, deep green; stipules narrow, dilated 
and divaricated at the end, finely toothed and fringed 
with glands, a little pubescent or not; petioles naked 
or downy, rarely glandular; leaflets 5-7, elliptical or 
ovate, a little pointed, spoonshaped, simply or doubly 
serrated, naked above, hairy more or ee and glandular 
beneath. Flowers deep yellow, lar, upshaped, soli- 
tary; bractewe none; peduncle and ‘ihe of the calyx un- 
armed, the latter ovate; sepals ovate, pointed, little 
divided, setigerous and even prickly on the outside ; 
petals obcordate; disk thickened; styles villous, dis- 
tinct. Fruit unknown. 
This, as Sir James Smith observes, has been strangely 
confounded by some botanists with R. sudphurea. And 
yet their resemblance chiefly consists in the similarity 
of colour in their flowers ; sudphurea being undoubtedly 
allied to R. sibirica, lutescens, &c. and this, though 
very different, so closely bordering upon R. rubiginosa 
that Linnzeus at one time did not distinguish them and 
united them under the name of eglanteria. This name, 
De Theis tells us, should be written aiglanteria, being 
formed from aig, which is derived from the Celtie ac, 
and signifying point. French botanists have agreed to 
