Woods refers to R. Kamchatica the following: viz. Rosa 
altaica, R. ochroleuca Swz. and R. suavis Willd. in which 
opinion he does not agree.» Mr. Woods’s words, in the 
Linn. trans. 12. p. 189. are, speaking of R. rubella, spino- 
sissima, involuta, Doniana, gracilis, and Sabini, as consti- 
tuting the English portion of the tribe of spinosissima, “ I 
“venture to mention R. Kamchatica as the only foreign 
“addition to the tribe already known.” If the German 
version of Mr. Woods's paper contains the statement alluded 
to by M. Trattinnick, it must be a statement of the German 
editor. 
_ R. Kamchatica is placed in Trattinnick’s Series 15. 
(Woodsiana), along with various species having little be- 
yond generic affinity with it, or with each other; while R. 
ferox, from which it is not easily distinguished, forms, by 
itself, a 14th Series (Hoppeana), under the erroneous name 
of R. rugosa, as we have above stated. 
An erect branching shrub, with short red surculi, which 
are slightly downy and covered all over with unequal 
straight aculei and sete, of which those under the stipulz 
are largest. ‘The prickles of the branches muchas in the 
surculi. Leaves like those of R. Kamchatica; but pale 
green, shining, quite smooth on both sides, the middle 
nerve and stalk only being hairy. Flowers bright red, soli- 
tary, with entire, acuminate glandular sepals. Fruit pyri- 
form, and stalks with a few scattered glands. 
J. L, 
