(1830)  Page(s) 154.  
 
Rosa Gallica...L'ombre agréable

(1830)  Page(s) xxxiv.  
 
ROSA.
Synopsis Speciarum et Varietatum.
30.  R. viminea, ramis vimineis, armis setaceis confer tissimis rectis patentibus inaequalibus, foliolis membranaceis planis impubibus simpliciter serratis.

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30.  ROSA viminea.
R. ramis vimineis, armis setaceis confertissimis rectis patentibus inaequalibus, foliolis membranaceis planis impubibus simpliciter serratis.
Hab. — in horto quodam academico legit P. S. Pallas. (v. s. c. herb. Lambert.)
Branches long, very slender and wiry, quite unlike those of R. spinosissima, armed with very dense, setaceous, spreading, straight, unequal prickles and a few setae.  Leaves very long; stipules dilated at the end and somewhat falcate; leaflets 5-7, oblong, simply serrated, of a membranaceous texture; petioles, peduncle and calyx naked; tube ovate; flowers very large.

For this I am indebted to the liberality of A. B. Lambert, Esq. who received it with the rest of Pallas's splendid herbarium.  Its native country is unknown.  From the ticket attached to the specimens, which is scarcely legible, it seems to have been obtained from some Botanic garden.  It can be confounded with no thing but spinosissima or lutescens, from which its long, weak, wiry shoots, clothed with very dense, setaceous prickles distinguish it.  I know no other Rose with such an habit.  Had it been caused by the plant growing in a shady close place, the shoots would not have been covered with such dense arms, and the leaves would have been further asunder.  Its membranous foliage will prevent any variety of R. spinosissima being mistaken for it, whose texture is always very firm and rigid.  Luxuriant shoots of the latter have very strong, usually falcate prickles; weak ones have none.