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are represented as all equal ; and being variously bent, look 

 rather like hairs than prickles: their length, however, gives them 

 a different appearance from those of R. rubella, and I have never 

 observed smooth fruitstalks on that species. In all the Roses of 

 the Flora Danica there is an unnatural curvature and laxity of 

 habit, which was probably introduced by the artist from the no- 

 tion that it would render them more beautiful as drawing's. 



No small degree»of confusion has arisen between the names of 

 R. spinosissima and R. pimpinellifolia, originating apparently with 

 Linnaeus himself. In the Flora Lapponica he says of jR. sylvestris 

 pomifera minor, which has usually been considered the same as 

 R. spinosissima, " In desertis passim prope tuguria vel fiuvioruni 

 ripas obvia fuit, licet nuUibi copiose." In the Flora Suecica he 

 describes a species under that name, with a reference to the Sp. 

 Plant, but not to the Floi-a Lapp., and says of it, " Habitat ad 

 agrorum margines, eorumque acervos passim." i\gain, in the 

 Fruticetum Suecicum {Aman. Acad. v. 220,) he writes, " Per totam 

 Sueciam crescit, praecipue in acervos lapidum et ad agrorum mar- 

 g'mes, adeoque in sabuletis et montibus." In the second edition 

 of the Sp. Plant, i. 703^, R. jnmpineUifolia is first introduced, " ger- 

 n>inibus globosis, caule aculeis sparsis;" and it is added, " Habitat 

 forte in Europa :" but no synonyms are given. In the same edi- 

 tion R. spinosissima is described " germinibus ovatis glabris, pe- 

 dunculis caule petiolisque aculeatissimis ;" and in the Syst. Veg. 

 edit. 13, the character " germinibus globosis" is equally given to- 

 both. 



Sir J. E. Smith considers the specimen of R. pimpinellifolia in 

 the Linnaean Herbarium as undoubtedly R. spinosissima ; and very 

 naturally concludes, that when Linnaeus added R. pimpinellifolia, 

 he did not recollect the plant to which he had previously given 

 another name. Dr. Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapp., quotes R. spinosissima 

 of Fl. Slice, of Linnaeus, but with a mark of doubt, as a synonym 



of 



