444 ROSA 



borne on a slender stalk I to i| ins. long, conspicuously furnished with 

 numerous, spreading, glandular bristles. Calyx-tube and sepals more or 

 less glandular bristly, the latter felted within, I in. or more long, with 

 expanded tips. Fruit red, I in. long, bottle-shaped, the distinct neck crowned 

 with erect persisting sepals. 



Native of Central China (Hupeh) ; introduced to cultivation by Wilson, 

 and now growing in the Coombe Wood nursery, where it first flowered in 

 June 1909. It is allied to macrophylla, and like all of that group is an interesting 

 and pretty rose. The most distinctive features are the large leafy bracts 

 on the corymb, and the very conspicuous bristles on the flower-stalks. 



R. SICULA, Trattinick. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7761, as R. Seraphini.) 



A close-habited, densely branched bush of rounded habit, 2 to 5 ft. high, 

 young wood not downy, but thickly furnished with stiff, flattened, decurved 

 spines of unequal length, the largest about J in. long. Leaves \\ to 2 ins. 

 long, composed of five or seven leaflets which are broadly ovate or round, 

 j to f in. long, doubly toothed, and with glands on the teeth, lower surface, 

 common stalk, and stipules. Flowers i to ij ins. across, bright rose, usually 

 solitary, sometimes two or three together ; stalk smooth or glandular-bristly ; 

 calyx-tube quite smooth ; sepals lanceolate or two- or three-lobed, with glandular 

 and ciliated margins ; styles downy. Fruit about the size of a large pea, 

 red, smo'oth, finally black, crowned with persistent sepals. 



Native of Italy (Sardinia, Sicily, etc.) and Corsica. A neat and pleasing 

 little rose, seldom seen in gardens, but quite hardy. It resembles R. ferox in 

 its dwarf habit, small leaves, and abundant spines, but differs in the particulars 

 pointed out under that species.. It is very similar to and confused with 

 R. SERAPHINI, Viviani, the true plant of which is not in cultivation ; it differs 

 from R. sicula in having glabrous styles. 



R. SIMPLICIFOLIA, Salisbury. 



(R. berberifolia, Pallas; Bot. Mag,, t. 7096 ; R. persica, Michaux.} 



A thin, straggling bush, 2 or 3 ft. high, with slender, wiry, downy stems 

 furnished with hooked spines and slender prickles, spreading by means of 

 underground suckers. Leaves glaucous, simple (consisting of one leaflet), 

 stalkless, obovate or oval, \ to f in. long, toothed towards the apex, covered 

 with fine down. Flowers about I in. across, solitary at the end of the shoot on 

 a slender, spiny stalk, the petals deep yellow with a crimson spot at the 

 base ; calyx-tube thickly covered with pale prickles ^ in. long ; . sepals 

 lanceolate, downy, more or less prickly. Fruit not seen in this country, 

 but, according to Pallas, globose, very prickly, and crowned with the persisting 

 sepals. 



Native of the Orient, Afghanistan, etc., inhabiting dry, hot regions ; 

 introduced in 1790. This remarkable rose, distinguished from all others by 

 the undivided leaf and absence of stipules, is exceedingly rare in cultivation. 

 It is not really hardy perhaps in any part of the country, and never appears 

 to have been kept more than a few years in the open air, even in such places 

 as the Isle of Wight. Perhaps it might thrive on some sunny bank in the 

 Isles of Scilly. A plant in a cool unshaded house at Kew, which has been 

 growing there for over twenty years, is planted near the glass in loam mixed 

 with lime rubble. Out-of-doors it would be most likely to succeed in some 

 "sun-trap" on a mound of loam and rubble, and covered with a glass light 



