Rose with round seed-buds and smooth peduncles: leaves composed of
four pairs, with a terminal leaf: leaflets ovate, wrinkled, and
serrate: footstalks prickly: stem armed with numerous straight
whitish thorns.
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Of this distinct species of Rose we can gain but little information, as
it is not enumerated in Willdenow, at least not under our specific
title; but we are inclined to think his Rosa rugosa is meant for it, as
the description accords exactly with our figure. It is well known to
cultivators by the specific appellation of ferox,--we have therefore
retained it; although hystrix would have been a much better specific
title, as it seems by nature formed to be admired at a distance, from
the numerous large thorns with which the stem is surrounded, that appear
calculated to express the old adage of ‘Noli me tangere.’
Our drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and
Brame, in the month of June.
[Illustration]
ROSA glabra.
_Smooth Rose._