ROSA LAVIGATA. 125 
Div. XI. Banksiane. Stipule sublibere, subulatee vy. 
angustissimee, szepius decidaz. Foliola seepius ter- 
nata, nitida. Caules scandentes. 
The species of this division are remarkable for their long, 
graceful, often climbing shoots, drooping white flowers, and ter- 
nate shining leaves. ‘Their distinguishing mark is the deciduous, 
subulate, or very narrow stipule. Their fruit is very various. 
R. hystrix has setigerous branchlets, and R. setigera has united 
styles. 
70. ROSA levigata. 
R. stipulis lineari-lanceolatis semi-adnatis, petiolis in- 
ermibus, fructibus muricatis. : 
R. levigata Mich. bor. am. 1.295. Pers. syn. 2. 49. 
Pursh am. sept. 1... 10. Smith in Rees in 1. 
IIab. in Georgiz sylvis umbrosis (Pursh), Fraser. (v.s. 
sp. herb. Sabine.) 
Stem climbing (Pursh). Prickles scattered, falcate; 
stipules very narrow, united to the petiole by a small 
part of their lower half, apparently not deciduous, 
fringed with glands; petioles naked; leaflets 3, ovate- 
lanceolate, when old coriaceous, shining, simply ser- 
rated, entirely free from pubescence. Flowers solitary, 
large, white; peduncle and tube of the calyx covered all 
over with dense, weak, unequal bristles; sepals spread- 
ing, ovate with a point, entire, dilated at the end, with 
a few bristles at their back; petals longer than the last, 
nearly entire. Stamens numerous; mass of stigmas 
very large and woolly; disk thickened.. Fruit oblong, 
red, muricate with stiff prickles and crowned by the 
indurated sepals. 
