ROSA WOODSII.
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yield in beauty to the most splendid varieties of gattica.
Its elegant unexpanding blossoms of the most delicate
pink and its dwarf compact habit have made it an
univei'sal favourite, notwithstanding the difficulty of
cultivating and especially of propagating it. I have
seen it succeed best in such soil as American plants are
in general found to require. Ehrhart, with his usual
accuracy, was the first to point out the peculiarities
which distinguish it from R. Carolina and lucida. I
unfortunately neglected to preserve any notes of the
R. parviflora from Muhlenberg in Sir James Smith's
herbarium; but from his observations I cannot help
thinking they must be of R. lucida; especially as he
quotes Miss Lawrance's figures under R. Carolina,
which would scarcely have been the case had the
true plant been before him. And yet the R. Carolina
of Sm. Insects of Georgia is very likely to be this, as
was first noticed in Rees's Cyclopaedia. I am obliged
to M . Achille Richard for an ample description of R.
caroliniana of Michaux's herbarium, which confirms
the propriety of referring it hither. In Mr. Lambert's
collection is a garden specimen with almost linear
leaves.
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ROSA
Woodsii.
R. stipulis sepalisque conniventibus, foliolis oblongis o b tusis glabris.
R . lutea nigra Promv. nomencl. 24.
Hab. juxta flumen Missouri America? septentrionalis
(v. v. c. hort. Sabine.)
In honorem cel. Josephi Woods qui primus veris Rosarum characteribus ad species distinguendas usus
est.
A low shrub with upright, dull, dark branches,
having very numerous, straight, slender, scattered