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ROSA kamchatica. 
Kamtschatka Rose. 
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ICOSANDRIA P OLYGYNIA. 
“Nat. ord. Rosacem, Jussieu gen. 334. Div. II. Rosx. 
ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. Rami tomentosi. 
R. kamchatica, foliis rugosis opacis, aculeis stipularibus et rameis valdé 
inzqualibus, fructu impubi. Lindley MSS. ° 
Rosa kamchatica. Ventenat cels. 67. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.259. Smith in 
Rees’s cyclop. in loco. ‘ 
Frutex 3-5-pedalis diffusus. Rami procumbentes, tomentosi, aculeis pilosis 
biformibus—stipularibus falcatis distantibus—rameis minoribus, densis, seti- 
Sormibus, setis raris intermixtis. Folia opaca, densa; stipule grandes, semt= 
obovate, pilose, margine crispe, hic illic glandulose: petioli tomentosz 
inermes ; foliola 7 elliptica, stmplicitér serrata, serraturis apice callosis— 
supra impubia, subtis pilosa, pallidiora. Flores subsolitarii, rubri ; bractese 
‘elliptica, subnude ; pedunculi nudi, purpurei: calycis tubus globosus, nudus + 
sepala angustissimé ae, extts impubia, glandulosa, apice latiora, - 
petalis longiora: petala obcordata, apiculata, demim plana. Discus elevatus, 
carnosus—Ovaria subnuda: styli pilost, ad basin nudiusculi—stigmatum 
massa conica, nuda. Fructus globosus, coccineus, cerinus, sepalis brevior. 
Lindley MSS. 
It is remarkable that this species should have beer 
hitherto placed in the vicinity of Rosa cinnamomea, which 
it does not resemble in the least, and that it should at the 
same time have been separated widely from Rosa feroa, 
which it approaches so nearly that the two can scarcely be 
discriminated by any describable permanent character, and 
yet no two species can be more truly distinct. | 
In kamchatica the leaves are less shining, and the stem 
less prickly than in ferov. In the latter the prickles imme- 
diately under the stipulze and those of the branches are 
equal in size, and of nearly the same form; but in kamcha- 
tica the stipulary prickles are large and falcate, those of the 
branches setiform and minute. erox retains its leaves and 
their verdure till late in the autumn, those of kamchatica 
fall off soon after the summer heat has commenced. 
The leaves of the specinien which Sir J. Smith described . 
in Rees’s Cyclopedia are more oboyate and retuse than those 
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