ROSA inermis. Rose without Thorns. This thornless Rose maybe almost considered as the exception to an otherwise general rule. A specific so unequivocally good seldom occurss and yet this Rose, in the Hortus Kewensis, bears the name of pendulina, from its pendulous fruit j a character common to several other species. From the book Roses, or, A monograph of the genus Rosa : containing coloured figures of all the known species and beautiful varieties, drawn, engraved, described, and coloured, from living plants. by Andrews, Henry Charles, Published in London : printed by R. Taylor and Co. ; 1805.

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