ROSA FEROX 
Sweet Briar. In 1891, however, when Crepin was examining the 
Roses in Cosson’s Herbarium, he came upon a very well-marked and 
complete specimen which had been collected by Schur at Kronstadt 
in 1 844. Schur does not seem to have referred to it in any of his 
writings, but the specimen was unmistakable, and Crepin had no 
hesitation in including Rosa ferox among the flora of the Austro- 
Hungarian Empire. It is rare in cultivation, but quite hardy, and 
should be grown on account of its singular appearance and entire 
dissimilarity to every other Rose. It is abundant in the Oxford 
Botanic Garden, and in all probability is one of Sibthorp’s plants. 
It has also been growing in Canon Ellacombe’s garden at Bitton for 
many years. 
There is an excellent figure of Rosa ferox in Marschall von 
Bieberstein’s Centauria -pi an tar um variorum Rossiae meridionalis . 
The plant figured by Miss Lawrance under the name of Rosa ferox 
is Rosa rugosa Thunb. 1 The Rosa ferox of Lindley’s Monograph 2 
and his plant in the Botanical Register 3 are likewise Rosa rugosa. 
1 Roses , plate 42 (1799). 2 P. 3, No. 2 (1820). 3 Vol. v. p. 420 (1819). 
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