I04 — ROSA BLANDA Aiton. 
Hudson’s bay or labrador rose 
Rosa blanda : caule erecto, ramoso, plerumque inermi ; aculeis sparsis, rectis, 
gracilibus, inaequalibus ; foliolis plerumque 7, oblongis, acutis, ad basim angustatis, 
simpliciter serratds, teneris, facie opacis, glabris, dorso pubescentibus ; rhachi inermi, 
pubescente ; stipulis apice libero ovato ; floribus paucis vel solitariis ; pedicellis 
nudis vel setosis ; calycis tubo globoso, nudo ; lobis simplicibus, elongatis, apice 
foliaceis, dorso glandulosis ; petalis rubellis, magnitudine mediocribus ; stylis 
villosis, liberis, baud protrusis ; fructu globoso, parvo, rubro, pulposo, sepalis 
persistentibus coronato. 
R. blanda Aiton, Hort . Kew. vol. ii. p. 202 (1789). — Jacquin, Fragm. p. 70, 
t. 105(1809). — Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 25, No. 16 (1820); Bot . Reg. vol. vi. t. 458 
(1820). — S. Watson in Smithsonian Misc. Coll . vol. xv. p. 309 (1878). — Britton & 
Brown, Illustr. FI. Northern U. States and Can. vol. ii. p. 229, fig. 1966 (1897). — 
C. K. Schneider, III. Handbuch Laubholsk. vol. i. p. 577 (1906). 
R. fraxinifolia Borkhausen, Forstbot. Beschr. Holz. p. 301 (1790). — Lindley, 
Ros. Monogr. p. 26, No. 17 (1820). — Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. vol. ii. p. 606 
(1825). 
R. laxa Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 18, No. 12, t. 3 ( non Retzius) (1820). 
R. Solandri Trattinnick, Ros. Monogr. vol. ii. p. 150 (1823). 
R. Lmdleyi Sprengel in Linnaeus, Syst. Feg. ed. 16, vol. ii. p. 547 (1825). 
R. virginiana K. Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. p. 243 {non Miller) (1869). — Koehne, 
Deutsche Dendrol. p. 298 (non Miller) (1893). 
R. alpina Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. v. p. 296 (Tent. Ros. Monogr. p. 12 
[1877]) (ex parte) (1878). 
Stems erect, 4-6 feet high, branched, the main ones brown, the young ones 
green ; flowering shoots usually without any prickles ; prickles when present small, 
slender, straight, unequal. Leaflets usually 7, rarely 9, oblong, acute, moderately 
large, narrowed to the base, simply serrated, thin, dull green and glabrous above, 
paler and pubescent beneath ; petioles pubescent, not aciculate or setose ; stipules 
adnate, with an ovate, acute, free point. Flowers one or few ; pedicels short, naked 
or setose. Calyx-tube globose, naked ; lobes simple, with a long leafy point, glandular 
on the back. Corolla pink, moderately large. Styles free, villous, not protruded 
beyond the flat disc. Fruit small, globose, red, naked, pulpy, crowned by the 
persistent sepals , ripening in August. 
The Labrador or Hudson’s Bay Rose was introduced into 
cultivation in 1 773 by Mr. James Gordon. Some authors have 
imagined it to be the Rosa sylvestris virginiensis of Parkinson, 1 others 
T heat rum Botanicum , p. 1017 (1640). 
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