ROSA ARVENSIS. 113 
KR. sempervirens Ross. ros. t. 32. 
R. repens Gmel. bad. als. 2. 418. Willd. enum. 547. 
Jacq. fragm. 69. t. 104 opt. Rau enum. 40. ) 
montana, pumila, fructu hispidulo. 
R. montana Vill. dauph. 3.547. Suter helv. 1. 300. 
Willd. sp. 2. 1076. Smith in Rees in 1? 
y hybrida, surculis crassioribus et brevioribus: flori- 
fero erecto multifloro, ramis sparsim setigeris, stylis 
discretis. 
R. hybrida Schleich. cat. 
R. geminata Rau enum. 39. 
R. gallica hybrida Ser. mel. bot. n. 1. p.39. 
Hab. in Angliz sepibus; Pedemontii, (Allioni) ; Pala- 
tinatiis, (Pollich); Germania, (Roth);  Silesie, 
(Krocker) ; Helvetize planitiebus, Hooker ; i 
Delphinattis montibus, (Villars) ; Helvetiz, (Suter). 
(®. v. Ss. 
Branches flagelliform, procumbent, slender, dull 
glaucous-purple, armed with scattered, falcate, or 
straightish, equal prickles, those of the old shoots al- 
most white, of the young ones smaller and red, some- 
times none (in weak specimens). Leaves distant, dark 
green, or, on a chalky soil, yellowish; stipules narrow, 
flat, naked, fringed with glands, red in the middle; 
petioles pubescent, with scattered glands and little fal- 
cate, dorsal prickles; leaflets 5-7, flat, ovate, somewhat 
waved, simply serrated, very glaucous beneath; the 
rib somewhat hairy. Flowers solitary on the branch- 
lets, numerous on the rootshoots, white with a yellow 
base, and a slight scent, at first cyathiform, afterwards 
more open; peduncles rough with glands and a very 
few setze; tube of the calyx ovate, naked; sepals short, 
ovate, concave, a little divided, those which are so, rough 
with glands; petals obovate, emarginate; stamens per- 
sistent ; disk elevated, fleshy; ovaries 15-25; styles 
united into a long smooth column. Fruit scarlet, 
round or oblong. 
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