104 ROSA RUBRIFOLIA. 
56. ROSA rubrifolia. 
R. aculeisparvis distantibus, foliolis ovatis. ramisq. 
glaucis opacis discoloribus, oyariis 20-3 
‘R. rubrifolia Villars dauph. 3. 549. Bellardi in act. 
taur. 1790. 229. t.9. Willd. sp. 2. 1075. Jacq. 
fragm. 70. ¢..106. opt. an Lapeyr. pyren. 284. 
Smith in Rees in l. Redout. os. 1. 35. t.4. Land- 
» ley in Bot. reg. t. 430. — 
R.n. 1101 6 Hall. helv: 
R. multiflora Reyn. act. Laus. 1.70. t. 6. 
R. rubicunda Hall. fil. in Rom. arch. b..1. st. 2. p. 6. 
-R. canina 6 Suter helv. 1. 302... ; 
R. glauca Desf. cat. H. P. 175. He 3 
‘R. glaucescens Wulf. in Rom. arch. 3. 376. 
‘R. lurida Andrews’s roses. 
R. cinnamomea y Redout. ros. 1. 134. 
Hab. in sylvis circa Lans, (Villars); in alpibus Sabau- 
~ dize, (Bellardi), Hooker ; Helvetiz, (Haller) Hooker; 
Austria ad Gutenstein, (Jacquin); Pyrenzeis, (La- 
ig ponte Alvernize, (Redouté) ; ( vi. ¢. 
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OP deep red or purple, covered with a pale 
‘bloom and armed with small, short, pale, hooked, 
equal Biches which are very dense but not larger 
_on the rootshoots. Leaves tinged with red, very glau- 
,cous, rugose, opaque. Flowers deep red, small ; ; sepals 
“very narrow and longer than the petals ; disk much 
‘thickened, almost closing the orifice. Fruit oblong 
with very tender flesh. Otherwise with the characters 
of R. canina, from which, nevertheless, its whole ap- 
pearance is dissimilar. td proper attention be paid to 
