438 ROSA 



2 ins. across, white, produced up to twenty or more together in large terminal 

 clusters in July and August. 



This rose is considered to be a hybrid between R. mpschata and some 

 form of R. indica raised (accidentally it is said) in N. America by Mr Phillipe 

 Noisette, early in the nineteenth century, and by him sent to Paris in 1817. 

 It is the type of a considerable group of garden roses, known as the 

 " noisettes," many of which, being crossed with the gallica and indica types, 

 depart widely from the original form, which is itself rare. Wm. Paul in his 

 last edition of The Rose Garden gave a list of thirty-five varieties. A fine 

 plant on one of the lawns at Kew makes a beautiful display every summer ; a 

 small spray from it is here figured. It is difficult, however, to see any 

 indication of R. indica. 



R. NUTKANA, Presl. NOOTKA ROSE. 



A robust shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high, spines stout, hooked or straight, sometimes 

 \ in. or more long on the young barren stems, often absent from the flowering 

 shoots. Leaves 3 to 5 ins. long, stipules edged with glands ; leaflets five to 

 nine, broadly oval to ovate, f to 2 ins. long, simply or doubly toothed, downy 

 beneath (sometimes smooth). Flowers solitary, or in twos or threes, bright 

 red, 2 to 2^ ins. across ; calyx-tube and flower-stalk smooth ; sepals I to 

 i^ ins. long, narrow, with an expanded leaf-like apex, glandular and more or 

 less downy. Fruit globose or orange-shaped, bright red, \ to in. wide, 

 crowned with the long, erect sepals. 



Native of Western N. America, common along the Pacific coast ; dis- 

 covered by Archibald Menzies on Vancouver Island in 1793. It is a handsome 

 wild rose, perhaps the handsomest of W. American species, and flowers and 

 fruits well in this country. 



R. OMEIENSIS, Rolfe. MOUNT OMI ROSE. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8471.) 



A shrub up to 10 or 12 ft. high, with the habit and general aspect of 

 R. sericea ; stems and branches variable in their armature, some being 

 smooth, some having a pair of spines at the base of the leaf-stalk, and some 

 very densely set with bristles and spines, the latter compressed and flat, awl- 

 shaped, up to % in. long. Leaves i^ to 4 ins. long, consisting of usually 

 eleven or thirteen (but sometimes seventeen or nineteen) leaflets, which are 

 oblong or obovate ; to i ins. long, J to | in. wide ; dark dull green and 

 smooth above, downy and often spiny on the midrib beneath ; the teeth 

 slender, incurved, simple; common stalk downy and spiny. Flowers solitary, 

 white, I to ij ins. Avide ; petals four Fruit pear-shaped, J to I in. long, 

 bright red, with a thickened stalk of bright yellow, the sepals persisting. 



Discovered on Mount Omi, in Szechuen, China, by the Rev. E. Faber 

 about 1886, and later by Henry ; introduced by Wilson in 1901. Although 

 palpably a close ally of R. sericea, it is distinct from that and all other 

 species known to me in the colouring of the fruit. It differs also in the 

 greater number of leaflets and in the thick, fleshy footstalk of the fruit. 



R. PISOCARPA, A. Gray. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 6857.) 



A small shrub, usually not more than 3 to 4 ft. high, of rather straggling 

 habit ; branches slender, unarmed, or with a few small prickles, either straight 

 or pointing upwards. Leaves 2 to 3 ins. long, with five or seven leaflets, 



