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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



54164 to 54265— Continued. 



54237. Rosa spinosissima hispida (Sims) Koehne. 

 For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 54153. 



54238. Rosa spinosissima luteola Andrews. 

 {R. ochroleuca Swartz.) 



(Chenault No. 5760.) "A Scotch form differing from the type iu 

 having usually seven leaflets and pale-yellow flowers 2 inches across." 



54239. Rosa spinosissima X(?). 

 Var. Lady Bailey. 



54240. Rosa sweginzowii Koehne. 



(Purdom No. 802.) "A western Chinese climber often 16 feet high, 

 with usually nine ovate-oblong leaflets, small clusters of pink 

 flowers, and oblong fruits an inch long." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 43915. 



54241. Rosa turkestanica Regel. 



"A tall shrub native to Turkestan, with few prickles and bearing 

 bright-red ovoid fruits an inch long." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 49122. 



54242. Rosa venosa Swartz. 



A Swedish shrub closely related to Rosa canina, from which it 

 differs in the strongly veined, doubly serrate leaflets which are 

 glabrous and glaucous beneath. (Adapted from Sprengel, Sy sterna 

 Vegetabilium, vol. 2, p. 554.) 



54243 and 54244. Rosa villosa L. 



54243. Var. arduenae. 



54244. Received as Rosa pomifera, which, is now referred to 

 R. villosa. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 54156. 



54245. Rosa webbiana Wall. 



"An erect shrub native to the Himalayas of Turkestan, with 

 five to nine very small orbicular glabrous leaflets, large solitary pink 

 flowers, and ovoid bright-red fruits." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 49954. 



54246. Rosa wichuraiana X (?). 

 Var. Goldfinch. 



54247. Rosa, wiLLMOTTiAE Hemsl. 



"A w^estern Chinese rose forming a densely branched shrub often 

 10 feet high, with seven obovate leaflets, solitary rose-purple flowers, 

 and bright orange-red globose fruits." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 32697. 



54248. Rosa wooDsn Lindl. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. 1. No. 54158. 



54249. Rosa xanthina Lindl. 



Forma normalis Rehd. and Wils. "The single-flowered form of 



the Chinese yellow rose which had been described by Lindley in 

 1830 from a Chinese drawing and was not otherwise known until its 

 discovery by Frank N. Meyer in 1907. The shrub is upright, often 

 10 feet high, with 7 to 11 elliptical, dentate leaflets, and solitary short- 

 stalked yellow flowers about 2 inches across." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 21620. 



