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APPENDIX. 



The following systematic enumeration of species is confined to those which are recorded as 

 having been introduced to the gardens of this country. It is probable, however, that many of 

 them do not now exist in a cultivated state ; and our gardens may contain some unrecorded 

 species. 



Sect. Feroces. Branches clothed with permanent t omentum ; leaves falling early in autumn, 

 after which the branches are remarkable for their hoary bristly appearance ; fruit perfectly 

 smooth ; sepals usually toothed. Deciduous bushes. 



Rosa ferox. Rosa bracteata. 



R. ferox, Lawr. (fierce Rose). A shrub of 3 to 4 feet high, the branches densely covered 

 with prickles all of the same shape ; the leaves consist of 5-9 elliptic retuse leaflets ; the flowers 

 are large and red ; and the fruit scarlet, and of a globose figure. Syn. : R. echinata, Dupont ; 

 R. kamtschatika, Bed. Var. nitens has glabrous foliage, and paler crimson flowers ; it is the 

 R. kamtschatika, £ nitens, Ser. — Fl. June to Aug. — Cult. 17.6. — Caucasus. 



R. kamtschatica, Vent. (Kamtschatka Rose). A shrub of 3 or 4 feet high, with large falcate 

 prickles, opaque leaves, of 5-9 obovate leaflets, deep red solitary flowers, and spherical scarlet 

 fruit, smaller than that of R. ferox. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1791 — Kamtschatka. 



Sect. Bracteata. Branches and fruit clothed with permanent tomentum ; leaves dense, 

 usually shining ; prickles placed under the stipules in pairs ; sepals nearly or quite simple. 

 Evergreen bushes. 



R. involucrata, Boxb. (involucrated Rose). A shrub of 3 to 4 feet, with white nearly solitary 

 flowers, surrounded by 3 or 4 approximate leaves ; the leaves consist of 3-9 leaflets, elliptic, lance- 

 shaped in figure, and downy beneath ; bracteas contiguous pectinate. Syn. : R. palustris, 

 Buchan.; R. Lindleyana, Tratt. — Fl. June to Aug. — Cult. 1818 — Nepal and China. 



R. bracteata, Wendl. (Macartney's Rose). A shrub of 3 to 4 feet, with erect branches, 

 strong hooked prickles, and leaves of 5-9 obovate shining leaflets ; flowers pure white, solitary, 

 nearly sessile among the appressed pectinated downy bracteas ; fruit woolly, spherical, orange 

 red. Syn. : R. lucida, Lawr. ; R. Macartnea, Bum. Var. scabriuscula has the branches seti- 

 gerous, and the prickles smaller and straigbtish. — Fl. June to October — Cult. 1795 — China. 



