on the ifiner side: petioles cottony, bristly and prickly with 
slender straight prickles; Jeaflets 5-9, elliptical, simply 
(sometimes doubly) serrate, furless at the upper side, cottony 
at the under and paler. lowers large, red, solitary: 
bractes either none or orbicular, hairy, serrate, with afringe — 
of glands: peduncles cottony; tube of the calyx obversely 
ovate, naked; segments of the calyx narrowly triangular, 
slightly compound, beset with glands, nearly naked on the 
outside, longer than the petals; petals obversely cordate, 
concave; disk more faintly defined than in Rosa kamchatica, 
where it is fleshy and raised. Ovaries shaggy: styles vil- 
lous, villi close-pressed. Fruit globular, scarlet, waxen, 
naked as well as the peduncle, Lindley MSS. 
