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ROSA ferox. 
Fedgehog Rose. 
a 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacex. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. IJ. Ross. 
ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. Rami tomentosi. : ‘ 
R. ferox, foliis rugosis glabris, aculeis confertissimis rigidis, stipularibus et 
rameis subequalibus, fructu impubi. Lindley MSS. 
Rosa ferox. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.262. Miss Lawr. roses. t. 42. Smith in 
Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Rosa kamchatica. Redouté’s roses. 1. 47. t. 12. ‘ 
Frutex 4-pedalis diffusus. Rami tomentost procumbentes, aculeis pilosis, 
gracilibus, subequalibus, flavidis, conformibus, setis intermixtis horridi. Folia 
glabra, nitida, densa, atro-viridia: stipule dilatate, semiobovate, tomentose, 
margine crisp@, glandulose, intis nude: petioli tomentosi, setosi et aculeati, 
aculeis gracilibus rectis ; foliola 5-9 elliptica, simplicitér (quanddque dupli- 
cat) serrata, supra impubia, subtus tomentosa pallidiora. Flores magni 
rubri solitarit; bractee v. nulla, v. suborbiculate, pilose, serrate, glandu- 
loso-ciliate: pedunculi tomentosi; calycis tubus obovatus, nudus ; sepala 
angusté triangularia, subcomposita, glandulosa, extis nudiuscula, petalis lon- 
tora; petala obcordata, concava; discus mag?s obliteratus quam Rosm 
amchatice, hujus carnosus elevatus. Ovaria hirsuta: styli villos?, villis 
appressis. Fructus globosus, coccineus, cerinus, nudus ut et pedunculus. 
Lindley MSS. ; 
‘ 
In the preceding article (Rosa kamchatica) we have no- 
ticed the chief circumstances which distinguish that from 
the present very distinct species. ‘That they are most de- 
cidedly different, must be evident to any one who is ac- 
quainted with them in a living state; and on this account 
we are the less able to imagine what can have induced M. 
Thory to pronounce them the same. 
Native of Mount Caucasus, and intrdduced in 1796 by 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery. 
Shrub four feet high, diffused or loosely spreading: 
branches cottony, trailing, bristled over with hairy slender 
yellowish prickles nearly of the same dimensions, with inter- 
mingling uniform bristles. Leaves smooth, shining, thick- 
set, of a black-green hue: stipules widened, halved, obversely 
ovate, cottony, curled at the edge, beset with glands, naked 
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