4 6— ROSA ACICULARIS Lindl. 
Rosa acicularis: caule elato, arcuato ; ramis floriferis, plerumque dense aculeatis 
et aciculatis ; aculeis gracillimis, rectis, saepe geminis infrastipularibus, in aciculis 
sensim gradatis ; foliolis 5-9, oblongis, acutis, membranaceis, glaucis, simpliciter 
serratis, facie glabris, dorso interdum pubescentibus ; rhachi glabra vel pubescente, 
obscure glandulosa ; stipulis adnatis, apice libero, ovato-lanceolato, glanduloso- 
ciliato ; floribus solitariis vel paucis ; pedunculis elongatis, nudis vel setosis; calycis 
tubo ampullaeformi ; lobis simplicibus, elongatis, apice foliaceis, nudis vel glandu- 
losis ; petalis rubellis ; stylis villosis, liberis, haud protrusis ; fructu plerumque 
cernuo, interdum erecto, rubro, pulposo ; aut subovato et apice breviter constricto 
vel elliptico et utrinque attenuato, aut suboblongo, saepius obovato-pyriformi, basi 
valde attenuato, sepalis persistentibus conniventibus coronato. 
R. acicularis Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 44, No. 27, t. 8 (1820). — C. A. Meyer in 
Mdm. Acad . Sci. SI. Petersbourg, ser. 6, vol. vi. p. 15 ( Ueber die Zimmtrosen , p. 15) 
( 1 847). — Maximowicz in Mdm. Acad. Sci. St. Pdtersbourg, vol. ix. p. 100 {Prim. FI. 
Amur) (1859). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. vol. i. p. 137(1874). — Crepin 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiv. p. 5 (Prirnit. Monogr. Ros. vol. iii. p. 299) (1875). — 
S. Watson in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. vol. xv. p. 309 (1878). — Koehne, Deutsche 
Dendrol. p. 298 (1893). — Dippel, III. Handbuch Laubholzk.woX. iii. p. 584 (1893). — 
Keller in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. FI. vol. vi. p. 296 (1902). 
R. alpina Pallas, FI. Ross. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 61 (non Linnaeus) (1784). 
R. Gmelini Bunge in Ledebour, FI. Alt. vol. ii. p. 228 (1829).— Ledebour, FI. 
Ross. vol. ii. p. 75 (1844). — D^s^glise in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xv. p. 281 (Cat. 
Rais. Ros. p. 112 [1877]) (1876). 
R. carelica Fries, Summa Peg. Scand. vol. i. p. 171 (1846). — Lange, FI. Dan. 
Suppl. 2, t. 75 (1865). — Desdglise in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xv. p. 274 (Cat. Rais. 
Ros. p. 105 [1877]) (1876). 
Stem tall, arched, reaching a height of 6-8 feet ; flowering branches usually 
densely prickly. Prickles very slender, straight, needle-like, passing gradually into 
aciculi, often in pairs at the base of the leaves. Leaflets 5- 9, moderately large, thin, 
oblong, acute, glaucous, simply openly toothed, glabrous on both surfaces or pubes- 
cent beneath ; petioles glabrous or pubescent, slightly glandular ; stipules adnate, 
with ovate-lanceolate gland-ciliated free tips. Flowers one or few ; peduncles long’ 
naked or thinly setose ; bracts ovate. Calyx-tube ampullaeform ; lobes lanceolate’ 
simple, an inch long, leafy at the tip, naked or glandular on the back. Petals bright 
pink. Styles free, villous, not protruded. Fruit bright red, pulpy, erect or more 
often cernuous, sometimes subovate and shortly constricted at the apex or elliptical 
and tapering at each end, sometimes suboblong or obovate-pyriform, much narrowed 
at the base, crowned by the persistent connivent sepals. 
Rosa acicularis is a northern plant, extending through northern 
Russia and Siberia to Japan and across Behring Sea into northern 
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