103 — ROSA STELLATA Wooton. 
Rosa stellata : caule brevi, erecto, ramoso ; aciileis magnis, sparsis, gracilibiis, 
suberectis, aciculis parvis intermixtis ; foliolis saepissime 3, raro 5, pinnatis, 
obovato-cuneatis, rigidiilis, viridibus, utrinque glabris, praesertim ad apicem 
simpliciter serratis ; rhachi glabra, aciculata, baud glandulosa ; stipulis adnatis, 
apicibus liberis linearibus ; floribus solitariis ; pedunculis brevissimis, nudis ; 
calycis tubo globoso, aciculato ; lobis ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, dorso hispidis, 
exterioribiis parce compositis ; petalis magnis, rubellis ; stylis liberis, villosis, 
hand protrusis ; fructu globoso, aciculato, sepalis erectis persistentibus coronato. 
R. stellata Wooton in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxv. p. 152, t. 335 (1898). — 
Crepin in Bull. Herb. Boissier, vol. vi. p. 725 (1898). — Baker in fourn. Hort. Soc. 
vol. xxvii. p. 455, fig. 128 (1902). — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. vol. iv. 
p. 1558 (1902). 
Stem short, erect, much branched; prickles large, scattered, slender, i in. long, 
intermixed with small aciculi, but not passing down into them gradually. Leaflets 
usually 3, sessile at the tip of the petiole, rarely 5, pinnate, obovate-cuneate, i in. 
long, rigid, green, glabrous, simply toothed, principally at the tips ; petioles glabrous 
and aciculate, not glandular ; stipules adnate, with linear free tips. Flowers solitary; 
peduncles very short, naked. Calyx-tube globose, very prickly ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
with a long point, hispid on the back, the outer slightly compound. Corolla \\-2. in. 
diam., pink. Styles free, villous, not protruded. Fruit globose, ^ in. diam., prickly, 
crowned by the erect persistent sepals. 
Rosa stellata is a very remarkable and distinct species. It was 
discovered in July 1897 by Mr. E. O. Wooton on the mountains of 
Lincoln and Donna Ana counties, New Mexico, at an elevation of 
5,500 to 6,000 feet. The discovery was one of great interest from a 
botanico-geographical point of view. For here we have two Roses 
belonging to the same section, having such important points of 
resemblance as Rosa mimitifolia Engelm. of Lower California and 
Rosa stellata of New Mexico, existing in almost the same latitude but 
at some 700 miles’ distance from each other. 
Rosa stellata differs from other Roses of the spinosissinia group 
in having usually only three obovate-cuneate leaflets, sessile at the tip of 
the petiole. The flowers are much larger than in the other forms of 
this group, and the fruit is very prickly. It has been in cultivation 
in the United States, but has not yet reached England. 
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