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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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immediately dis-tinguish it. The learned president of the Linutcan so-ciety can scarcely have been well acquainted with theplant before us, or he would not have excluded the re-ference to Dilleniuss figure, which is a good repre-sentation of it, nor have quoted Miss Lawi-ances /. 75,the R. alpina (3 of Aiton, which is undoubtedly Jac-quins R. blanda and my R. Jhuinifolia. Yet finewild specimens from Bigelow are in his herbarinm, andfrom their ticket it a))pears tliat the species is commonin marshy situations in North America. 12. RQSA laxa. Tab. .S. R. diffasa, ramulis vimineis subinermibus, foliolis ob-longis undulatis opacis glaucescentibus. R. Carolina s Ait. hew. ed. alt. 3. 260. R. earolina pimpinellifolia Andrews s 7H)ses? Hab. in America septentrionali (v. v. cult.) A spreading shrub with reddish brown, shining,wiry branches wdiich have straightish pricldes underthestipulie; the hranchlets are usually unarmed ; theruotshuuts covered all over tlieir lower half with nume-r .%/ .J
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Ji^^j •<*. ROSA LAX A. 19 roiis, slender prickles, and a few setffi intermingled.Leaves not shining, tliickset; .stipules narrow, bmadertowards tiieir end, where tliey are recurved, naked ex-cept at the margin, which is glanchdar ; petioles (Xowny,reddish-green, furnished with weak prickles, seta^ andglands ; leaflets l-\), elliptic-lanceolate, glaucous, na-ked, waved, with inconspicuous veins. Flowers rose-coloured, growing usually in pairs; ^rac/ea? ovate andfringed, otherwise naked; flower-stalks glandular;tube of the cali/x spherical, armed with some seta.»; se-pals triangular, lanceolate, nearly entire, a little dilatedat the end, shorter than the petals, hairy, glandularand setigerous on the outside, especially at the base;petals flat; disk almost obliterated. Fruit unknown. Frequently cultivated under the name of the spread-inof Carolina Rose. It is not however with 7?. Carolinathat it can be confounded, since its whole habit, glau-cous leaves, and open stipulie, permanen

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