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ROSA grandiflora. 
Largeflowered Scotch Rose. 
wets 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacrx. 
ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. 5. Pimpinellifolice. Setigere armis confertis subconformibus, v. iner- 
mes; ebracteate (rarissime bracteate). Foliola ovata v. oblonga. Se- 
pala conniventia, persistentia, Discus subnullus. 
R. grandiflora, setis ramorum nullis, aculeis subeequalibus distantibus, fo- 
liolis planis impubibus simpliciter serratis. Lind/. Mon. Ros. 53. 
The native country of this fine Rose is uncertain. It is 
said to be an inhabitant of Siberia; but the R. pimpinellifolia 
of Bieberstein, which was supposed to be the same as this 
species, being referred in the Supplement of the Flora Tau-— 
rico-caucasica to R. altaica of Willdenow, there is now no 
better authority for considering it a native of Asia than the 
vague report of gardeners. 
It is nearly related to Rosa spinosissima, these two 
species differing, as we have stated elsewhere, nearly in the 
same manner as R. involuta and Sabini. The chief points 
of difference between this and R. spinosissima consist in its 
very large flowers, and in the want of sete among the 
prickles of the branchlets. It is, moreover, a much more 
robust plant than any of the varieties of R. spinosissima, and. 
has larger fruit. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society last Spring. 
JE, Ibe 
