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ROSA NITIDA.

slender, naked; leaflets 3-7, narrow lanceolate, naked,simply serrated, their veins inconspicuous. Cymesone or few flowered; bractece polished, ovato-lanceo-late, waved, revolute; flower-stalks covered with nearlyequal setae ; tube of the calyx setose, spherical or nearlyso; sepals very narrow, shorter than the petals, withoutsetose and downy. Petals obcordate, very red andbrilliant, concave, nearly erect; stamens 100-130; diska little thickened and flattened. Ovaria 30-35 ; stylesdisengaged, villous , included. Fruit bright scarlet,depressedly spherical, somewhat hispid.

A pretty little species, with very bright red, cup-shaped flowers, widely different from 11 . blanda, withwhich Pursh certainly confounded it; for it was froman inspection of this growing in Mr. Sabine’s gardenthat he altered the specific character of blanda in hissupplement. Possibly he meant something else by ni~tida, but what that was there are unfortunately nomaterials for determining. It is commonly called thedwarf Labrador Rose in the gardens. Miss Lawrance’st. 27 seems to be a miserable figure of this, and yetthe learned author of the monograph in Rees’s Cyclo-paedia cites it to blanda, following the second editionof Hortus Kewensis. R. rnbrispina of M. Bose I havelittle doubt in referring here; and R. Redutea rubescensof Redout^ is certainly our plant; what resemblancethere can be between it and the original R. Redutea Iam quite at a loss to discover.