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gave of it ; for he attributed to it a foliage shining above, 

 paler beneath ; and there is no western rose known to us with 

 leaflets polished or shining above. Moreover, he who will 

 read I^indley's account of the origin of R. Woodsii will see 

 that its pedigree is quite too mythical. The seed from which 

 the bush grew may have come from " near the Missouri," and 

 it may have come from some part of the world very remote 

 from the Missouri. 



Rosa Sandbergii. Stout, rigid, much branched but low, 

 the branches glabrous, reddened, sparsely armed with short 

 stout slightly curved prickles : leaves small, with rather 

 crowded small leaflets ; rachis slender, glabrous, glandless 

 and with no trace of prickles ; adnate part of stipules narrow, 

 thin, glabrous, glandless, the lobes dilated, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, their margins with some few sessile glands ; leaflets 5 to 

 7, thin, obovate, obtuse, sharply serrate, rather pallid and 

 glaucescent as well as wholly glabrous on both faces : flowers 

 mainly solitary at ends of short twigs ; calyx glabrous except 

 as to the pubescent margins of the sepals : fruits small, glo- 

 bose, smooth and glabrous, crowned with the persistent small 

 sepals. 



Colgate, Dawson Co., Montana, collected in 1892 by Messrs. 

 Sandberg, MacDougal and Heller ; their n. 1009 as in U. S. 

 Herb. 



A Cruciferous Monotype. 



Sandbergia. Perennial herbs, in habit, vegetative charac- 

 ters and stellately hoary indument recalling the Physarieae. 

 Flowers small, white, at first almost corymbose, but passing to 

 long loose racemes in fruit. Leaves simple, chiefly in a basal 

 tuft surmounting the short caudex and its branches. Sepals 

 subequal both at base and throughout, short, broad, obtuse. 

 Corolla regular ; petals with broad ligulate claw and broader 



