426 ROSA 



glandular-margined bract ; calyx-tube conspicuously covered with glandular 

 bristles ; sepals entire, long-pointed, glanded like the tube, inner surface and 

 margins downy. Fruit red, f in. long, rather pear-shaped, with sepals 

 attached. 



Native of Turkestan ; discovered by the Russian traveller Fedtschenko 

 (1868-1871). In a border of wild roses it is at once marked by its pale 

 glaucous foliage, a character which distinguishes it from R. acicularis (to 

 which it is allied), as do also the white flowers and very glandular calyx-tube. 



R. FEROX, Bieberstein. 



A dwarf, compact, little bush, i to 2 ft. high, of rounded form, armed 

 with numerous decurved prickles, j in. or less long ; young shoots furnished 

 with numerous glandular bristles. Leaves I to 2 ins. long, with five or seven 

 leaflets, which are oval or roundish, J- to f in. long, coarsely but evenly and 

 doubly toothed ; the teeth, common stalk, stipules and under-surface copiously 

 glandular. Flowers I to i J ins. across, white, solitary or two or three together ; 

 sepals pinnately lobed, glandular-toothed, and ciliate ; flower-stalk glandular. 

 Fruit roundish, red, with the sepals fallen away. 



Native of the Crimea and Caucasus. This interesting and pretty little 

 rose forms a dense mass of interlacing, very spiny twigs. It is allied to the 

 more western R. sicula, but is easily recognised by the glandular young 

 shoots, flower-stalk, and calyx-tube ; and by the pinnately lobed sepals, which 

 do not persist on the fruit (see also R. gluiinosa). It must not be confounded 

 with the R. ferox of Lawrance an obsolete name for R. rugosa (Bot. Reg., 

 t. 420). 



R. FOLIOLOSA, Nuttall. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8513.) 



A shrub usually under 3 ft. in height, spreading by means of underground 

 suckers ; stems clustered, erect, either unarmed or with a few straight, slender 

 prickles. Leaflets seven to eleven, narrowly oblong, f to 2 ins. long, smooth 

 and glossy above, downy on the midrib beneath, toothed. Flowers bright 

 pink, 2 to 2^ ins. across, fragrant, usually solitary on short stalks ; sepals f to 

 i in. long, bristly outside. Fruit red, bristly, orange-shaped, \ to \ in. wide, 

 sepals spreading. 



Native of the south-western United States, and distinct among American 

 roses by reason of its oblong, rather narrow, forward-pointing leaflets, closely 

 set on a common stalk. It is allied to virginiana, but is altogether smaller. 



R. FORTUNE AN A, Lindley. FORTUNE'S ROSE. 



A climbing shrub, up to 30 or 40 ft. high ; introduced from China by 

 Fortune about 1845. It has much the general character of the Banksian 

 rose, having three or five leaflets to each leaf, smooth and simply toothed. 

 It is considered to be a hybrid between that species and R. lasvigata. The 

 flowers are white, double as in the forms of R. Banksias, but larger, and with 

 the bristly stalk and calyx-tube of laevigata, whose influence is further shown 

 in the large leaflets, which are downy only at the base of the midrib. A 

 handsome and vigorous climber which thrives on sheltered, sunny walls near 

 London. 



There is a form of R. indica (var. PSEUDO-INDICA, Lindley} which has also 

 been called " Fortuneana," but with which the above must not be confounded. 

 It has large, double yellow flowers tinged with red, and sweetly scented. 



