1558 



ROSA 



47. steliata, Wooton. Similar to the preceding: Ifts 



fls. 1^-2^ 



across, 



3-5, broadly cuneate - obovate : __.... 

 deep rose -purple. New Mex. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 

 25:835. — This and the preceding would be handsome 

 shrubs for rockeries, especially the latter, on account of 

 its larger fls. Both are probably tender and probably 

 are not yet in cult. 



ROSA 



states. B.M. 2847. B.R. 23:1922. G.C. III. 6:497. 

 Gn. 53, p. 207. — Handsome climbing Rose, but not hardy 

 north. A hybrid with R. Banhsicn is R. Fortunedna 

 (see No. 15). A hybrid with a Tea Rose is the Anemone 

 Rose, with large single light pink fls. M.D.Gr. 1896:345. 



Section XV. Microphyll^. One Asiatic species. 

 Upright spreading shrub, with the straight prickles 

 in pairs: fls. 11-15; stipules very narroiv, ivith suhu 

 late divergent auricles : fls. usually several, with 

 small and quickly caducous hracts ; sepals broad, 

 erect and persistent, the outer ones pinnate; carpels 

 only at the bottom of receptacle. 



50. microphylla, Rosb. Much - branched spreading 

 shrub 6 ft. high, with straight or ascending prickles: 

 Ifts. 11-15, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute, sharply ser- 

 rate, glabrous or pubescent beneath : 

 fls. pale pink, often solitary, 2-2K in. 

 across, short-pedicelled; sepals and 

 receptacle prickly: fr. depressed- 



2165. Bud of Madame Georges Bruant Rose (X %). 



One of the Rugosa hybrids. No. 41. 



Section XIII. Bkacteat^. Two Asiatic species. 

 Shrubs with erect or sarmentose and tomentose or 

 pubescent stems; prickles in pairs: stipules slightly 

 adnate and pectinate: inflorescence with large brads: 

 sepals reflexed after flowering, entire; receptacle to- 

 mentose. 



48. bractea,ta, Wendl. (R. Macdrtnea, Dum.). Ma- 

 cartney Rose. Stems usually procumbent or sarmen- 

 tose, villous-tomentose, with stout hooked prickles : Ifts. 

 5-9, oval to obovate, crenately serrulate, bright green 

 above and somewhat shining, almost glabrous beneath, 

 K-2 in. long: fls. one or few, short-stalked, white, 2-2% 

 in. across ; sepals and receptacle densely tomentose. 

 June-Oct. S. China, Formosa; naturalized in Fla. and 

 La. H.M. 1377.— Handsome half-evergreen climber, not 

 hardy north. 



Section XIV. 'L^e.woa'tm. One Asiatic species. Climb- 

 ing shrub, with scattered hooked prickles: Ifts. gen- 

 erally 3: stipules almost free: fls. solitary , without 

 bracts, large, white: sepals erect, entire, persistent. 



49. laevigata, Michx. (R. Sinica, Murr. R. Chero- 

 Mnsis, Donn. 7.'. terndta, Poir. R. Camellia, Hort.). 

 Figs. 2166, 2167. High climbing shrub, with slender 

 green prickly branches: Ifts. 3, rarely 5, elliptic-ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, shining and gla- 

 brous, l>^-2^ in. long: fls. solitary, white, rarely rose, 

 2}4-VA in. across, fragrant; pedicels and receptacle 

 densely bristly : fr. large, obovate, bristly. June. 

 China, Formosa, .Japan ; naturalized in the southern 



2166. Cherokee Rose— Rosa laevigata (Xj^). 

 Commonly known as 7?. Sinica. No. 49. 



globose, lK-2 in. across, very prickly. June, July. 

 China, Japan. B.M. 6548. -Var. pl^na, Hort. With 

 double fls. B.M. 3490. B.R. 11:919. Not quite hardy 

 north. Sometimes hybrids with R. Chi)}ensi!^ and with 

 7i'. rugosa are cult, under the name of R. microphylla. 

 The hybrid with R. rugosa has large single purple fls., 

 handsome bright green foliage and very Pnckly 

 branches ; it is of vigorous growth and will probably 

 make a good hedge plant. 



