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ROSA sulphurea. 
Double yellow Rose. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
ROSA. (Germ. plura indefinita, calyce urceolari supra coarctato 
tecta, quasi infera, singula monostyla. Sem. totidem.) Cad. urceolaris 
collo. coarctatus, supra 5-fidus laciniis oblongis, 2 nudis, 2 utrinque 
appendiculatis, 1 hine tantim appendiculaté, (rard omnibus nudis). 
Pet. 5. Stam. brevia. Singulo stylo stigma simplex. ~Cal. baccatus 
sphericeus aut ovoideus, limbo persistente coronatus, fovens semina 
numerosa oblonga hispida. Frufzces, plerique aculeati aculeis sparsis; 
Solia impari-pinnata (rard simplicia), stipulis aleformibus (rard spine- 
formibus) imo petiolo communi adnatis ; flores solitarii aut subcorymbost 
terminales, sepe magni, in hortis pleni. Jussieu. gen. 335, et 452 inapp, 
R. sulphurea, germinibus globosis, petiolis cauleque aculeatis, aculeis 
caulinis duplicibus majoribus, minoribusque numerosis, foliis ovalibus. 
Hort. Kew. 2.201. , 
Rosa sulphurea. Willd. arb. 305. sp. pl. 2.1065. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 
77. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 258. Smith in Rees’s ecyclop. sub verbo 
~ Rosa, n. 3. 
R; lutea. Brotero fl. lusit. 2. 337; (nec aliorum). 
R.glaucophylla. hrh. beitr. 2. 69. , 
R. hemispherica. Herrmann. ros. 19. ; 
R. lutea multiplex. Park. par. 417. t. 415. f. 6. Ger. emac. 1267. f. 6. 
R. lutea s. flava maxima fl. pl. Hort. Eyst. vern. ord. 6. fol. 2. f. 4. 
-R. flava pleno flore. Clus. hist. 114. et app. alt. & cur. post. 6. 
*. Frutex modo orgyalis, cortice ea ig aaa + folia 3-4-pinnata, foliolis 
glaucissimis ellipticis v. obovatis, simpliciter serratis ; stipule lacere. Cal. 
- oblato-hemisphericus, pube glandulosa hispida frequentiort sed non densa con- 
Spersuse 
The history of the plants that compose this popular 
genus, which has appeared in the last fasciculus of Rees’s 
Cyclopedia, coming from the pen of Sir James Smith, it 
would be an injustice to our readers to omit availing our- 
selves of the account of the present species. 
“This fine and singular species, strangely confounded by | 
many botanists, with Rosa dutea, was received by Clusius 
“from the Levant, but its native country is not precisely 
“known. It has been cultivated in England for near 200 
- years, and is perfectly hardy as to cold, but very impatient 
« of low, confined or smoky situations; nor does it in the most 
“ favourable often expand its copious, and truly glorious 
