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ROSA RUBIFOLIA. 193 
It is very generally cultivated on account of the 
fine musky perfume of its flowers; whence its name. 
Our winters, however, are usually too rigorous for it. 
It exhibits, apparently, the most compound inflorescence 
of the genus; but I am disposed to consider the mass of 
flowers i it produces to be formed by the aggregation of a 
great number of leafless floriferous branchlets, each of 
which considered separately would not be found in a 
state of greater composition than is usual; rather than 
similar to cymes of Roses in general. The order of 
expansion confirms my opinion. 
Besides their dissimilarity in habit, it differs from 
sempervirens nearly in the same way that abyssinica 
does. And it is not the least remarkable part of these 
the only Roses strictly natives of Africa alone, that they 
should both have down on their branchlets, ramifica- 
tions of inflorescence, and young fruit, which is a cha- 
racter otherwise peculiar to certain Asiatic species only. 
69. ROSA rubifolia. 
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R. ramulis impubibus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis serra- 
turis divaricatis, stipulis integris, sepalis ovatis, fruc- 
tibus pisiformibus. 
R. rubifolia Brown! in Ait. kew. ed. alt. 3. 260. 
Pursh am. septr. 1. nn. 9. Smith in Rees in L. 
GB fenestrulis, foliolis utrinque impubibus, floribus sub- 
solitariis. ae i 
R. fenestrata Donn! cant. ed. 8. 170. 
Hab. in America septentrionali, Masson (v. v. c. hort. 
Sabine ets. sp. herb. Banks.) 
A shrub three or four feet high. Rootshoots ascend- 
ing, straight; branches — green, without down, 
