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ROSA multiflora. 
| Bramble-flowered Rose. 
SS 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. II. Rose. 
ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. Rami impubes, aculeati, setis nullis, stylis in columnam elongatam 
coalitis. Lindley MSS. 
R. multiflora, subscandens, foliolis quinatis, lanceolatis, mollibus, rugo- 
sulis, pedunculis calycibusque tomentosis. Lindley MSS. j 
Rosa multiflora. Thunb. jap. 214. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1077. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2. 3. 265. Curtis's magaz. 1059. Smith in Iees’s cyclop. in loco. — 
Lindley’s monograph. ined. 
Rosa flava. Donn cant. ed. 4. 121; fide Smith.. , 
-Frutex 12-15-pedalis: rami flagelliformes, subscandentes, impubes, rubro- 
virides, aculeis geminis stipularibus aduncis equalibus. Fol. valdé opaca, 
cinerea; stipula lineares margine pinnatifide, subtis tomentose; petioli vil 
losissimi; foliola 5-7 subimbricata, lanceolata, rugosa, simplicitér serrata, 
ulringue tomentosa. Flores pulchré rubescentes, dense corymbosi ; bractew _ 
lineares, dentate, extiis tomentose; pedunculi, calycis tubus eet, al 
sepalaque simplicia, ovata, densé tomentosa; petala semper hortis multiplicia. 
Styli dilatati pilosi in columnam elongatam coalitt, Fructus ignotus. Lind- 
ley MSS. 
Thunberg was the discoverer of this very pretty species, 
near Nagasaki, in Fisher’s Island, at Papenberg, &c. &c. 
in Japan. No one has since been so fortunate as to meet 
with it in a wild state. 
Introduced by Mr. Thomas Evans in 1804; and is now 
cultivated in the open air against walls and along trellis- _ 
work. 
It is very readily distinguished from all the other species 
with columnar styles, by its lanceolate leaves, which are 
slightly wrinkled and soft to the touch; but more particu- 
larly by the dense hairiness of the calyx and its peduncle, 
on which account we are disposed to make the singular co- 
-herence of styles the character of species rather than of a 
group; because there are some individuals from the East 
Indies in the Banksian Herbarium, which possess little. 
besides this character in common with those with which 
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