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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



(Dec. Prod.) Sub-evergreen. China Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 

 18?8. Flowers very large, double, and of a delicate blush colour; August 

 to October. Fruit orange red ; ripe in October. 



An interesting little shrub, but somewhat tender,^ like R. bracteata. There 

 is a variety in the Hort. Soc. Garden called R. in. alba. 



. 5. R. INVOLVCRA'TA Ro.vb. The involucred-corynibed Rose. 



Identification Roxh. Fl. Ind. ined., according to Lindl. Rosar. Monog., p. 8. ; Dec. Prod., 2. 



p. 602 : Don's Mill., 2. p. 565. 

 Synonymes. R. Lindleyna Tratt Ros. 2. p. 109 ; . palustns 



Buchan. (Ham.) MSS. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 739. ; and our fig. 555. 



Spec. Char., %c. Shoots long, tender. Branches 



pale brown, tomentose, scarcely prickly. Leaflets <g~ 



3 9, elliptical-lanceolate, tomentose beneath. 



Stipules hardly attached to the petiole, bristle- 

 like-fringed. Flowers terminal, mostly solitary, 



white. Peduncles and calyxes tomentose. (Dec. 



Prod.} Deciduous, branchy. Nepal and China. 



Height 3ft. to 4ft. Introd. 1818. Flowers 



white ; June and July. Fruit orange red ; ripe 



in October. 



Seringe seems to consider this as a variety of 

 R. bracteata. The flowers are in corymbs, sur- 

 rounded by three or four approximate leaves. The 

 plants are "rather tender, and succeed best against a 

 wall, where they flower magnificently. Not com- 

 mon in collections. Lodd. 



5.V>. /?. involucrata. 



iii. Cinnambmea Lindl. Ros. p. 13. 



Sect. Char. Plants setigerous or unarmed, bracteate. Leaflets lanceolate 

 glandlcss. Disk thin, never thickened. This section is distinguished by its 

 long lanceolate leaflets without glands, its upright shoots, and compact habit. 

 Flowers red, never solitary, except by abortion, and always supported by 

 bracteas. Fruit round, small, red (soon losing its long narrow sepals), and 

 with small, smooth, shining carpels. The shoots are usually setigerous next 

 the ground ; but rarely so towards the apex, except in one or two instances. 

 R. alpina and R. acicularis, of the following division, sometimes have brac- 

 teas; but their sepals never fall off till the fruit is decayed. Sepals simple, 

 entire, or nearly so, unless when mentioned otherwise. (Don's Mi/I.) 

 Plants of most of the species are in cultivation in British gardens. De- 

 ciduous rambling bushes ; natives of Continental Europe and North 

 America, and some of them of Britain. 



A. Species Natives of North America. 

 & 6. R. LU'CIDA Ehrh. The shining-leaved Rose. 



Identification. Ehrh. Beitr., 4. p. 22. ; Lindl. Rosar. Monog., p. 17. j 

 Dec. Prod., 2. p. 602. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 565. 



,-mes. R. rubra Iticida Rossig. Ros., t. 7. and t. 25. f. 1 . ; R. 

 a Jacq. Fragm. 71. ; Rose Turr 

 Frene, Fr. 



ICicida Jacq. Fragm. 71. ; Rose Turneps ; Rosier a Feuilles dc 



Engravings. Red. and Thor. Ros., 1. p. 45. ic. ; N. Du Ham., vol. 7. 

 t. 7. ; and our^. 556. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Prickles recurved, or none. Leaflets 

 5 9, lanceolate-elliptical, coriaceous, bluntly ser- 

 rated, glossy. Stipules dilated, large, finely ser- 

 rated, and extended as far as to the leaflets. 

 Peduncles somewhat hispid. Flowers red, and 

 opening late in the season. Sepals almost entire, 



456. /.'. Uicirtn. 



