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Title: Rosarum monographia, or, A botanical history of roses : to which is added an appendix, for the use of cultivators, in which the most remarkable garden varieties are systematically arranged, with nineteen plates
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Subjects: Roses
Publisher: London : Printed for James Ridgeway ...
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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the plant of Linnaeus. Here,however, the mistake originated, and the justly highauthority of that excellent work has undoubtedly pre-vented its being sooner detected. 27. ROSA aciciilaris. Tab. 8. R. elatior, aculeis acicularibus inoequalibus, foliolisglaucis rugosis convexiusculis, fructu obainpuUaceocernuo. I lab. in Sibiria Bell. (v. v. c.) About eight feet high, compact. Branches erect,the younger glaucous, the adult ones brownish, clothedwith unequal, very slender straight prickles and a fewsetse. Leaves dense, opaque, very glaucous; stlpuhcnarrow, \vithout hairs, fringed with glands, a little di-lated at the end ; petioles pale green, naked, or a littlehairy, slender, with very long joints; leaflets aborut 7,of a very thin texture, oval, convex, a little rugose,simply serrated, the teeth diverging, nearly withouthairiness, very coesious on their under side. Flowerssolitary, pale blush, fragrant; hractece ovate, convex,naked, shorter than the naked peduncle; tube of the Jo/ (S. \
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. ^i-^, a^^^ a«^ ait.t4>^* ^.. ..-;/<v,^»..«». ROSA ACICULARIS. 45 calyx naked, elliptical; sepals very narrow, somewhatdivided, hairy, thrice as long as the tube; petals obo-vate, emarginate, spreading, shorter than the sepals ;disk broad, a little elevated; styles hairy, distinct,their ends exserted and spreading. Fruit obovate, witha neck, yellowish orange, naked, somewhat oblique,crowned with the connivent sepals, which are thickenedat their base. An interesting addition to the splnosissima tribe,introduced from Siberia by Mr. Bell. From plantscommunicated by the late Mr. Donn to Mr. Sabine, itappears to be the R. kamchatica of his Hortus Canta-brigiensis. From the three preceding species inequalityof prickles distinguish it; it is readily known from therest by its greater size and glaucous, rugose leaves. Inthe former respect it is surpassed, indeed, by R. Sabini,but the strong prickles of that plant, which are falcatewhen mixed with setae, and pugioniform when withoutt

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