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ROSA Wilsoni.
Wilson’s Rose.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at
the orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Seeds
(carpels) numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside
of the calyx.
Spec. Char. Prickles crowded, unequal, straight,
intermixed with setae. Leaflets simply serrated,
hairy; their disk eglandulose. Calyx simple.
Fruit nearly globular, with a short neck.
Syn. Rosa Wilsoni. Borr. in Hook. Brit. FI. 228.
T H I S beautiful addition to our Roses was discovered by
William Wilson, Esq., in July 1826, near Bangor Ferry,
on a declivity by the Menai, where it spreads widely by
the root, and forms bushes about three feet high, with
slender diffuse branches, and foliage which early acquires
a remarkable tinge of red. In general habit it most resembles
R. rubella, t. 2521; but the prickles are more unequal,
and the larger ones considerably dilated at the base,
and they are intermixed with a much smaller proportion of
gland-tipped setae; the leaflets are larger, broader, and
flatter, of a deeper and brighter green, although not shining,
and sprinkled with hairs on both sides, but chiefly on the
nerves and veins beneath; the flowers are not so, generally
solitary or merely in pairs, and are subtended by larger
and broader bracteas. The simple serratures, and the
want of glands on the disk of the leaflets, distinguish it