Musk Rose

Rosa brownii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 44: 70. 1917
Stem slender, terete, glabrous, green or brownish, armed with slender straight prickles, which are 5-8 mm. long, terete except the expanded depressed base; leaves 5-7-f oliolate ; stipules usually broad, 1-1.5 cm. long, pilose and somewhat glandular, the free portion ovate, acute; petiole and rachis finely pilose and more or less glandular; leaflets thin, 1-3 cm. long, serrate with some of the teeth double, broadly oval, acute at the apex, glabra te above, paler, pilose, and slightly glandularmuricate beneath; flowers mostly solitary ; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, glabrous; hypanthium globose, glabrous, in fruit about 12 mm. in diameter; sepals lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, usually with foliaceous tips, about 2 cm. long, glabrate on the back, tomentose and slightly glandular-hispid around the margins, and tomentose within; petals broadly obovate, rose-colored, 1.5-2 cm. long; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted both in the bottom and on the sides of the hypanthium.
Type locality: Mount Shasta, California. Distribution: Northern California.

Rosa moschata Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Rosa no. 13. 1768
Stem branched, sarmentose or climbing, 2-4 m. high, armed with scattered, somewhat curved and rather strong prickles; stipules adnate, about 1 cm. long, narrow, somewhat glandular-dentate; free portion lanceolate, spreading; rachis and petiole sparingly glandular; leaflets 5-7, oval, elliptic, or lance-elliptic, more or less acuminate, 1.5-7 cm. long, finely serrate, usually pubescent and paler beneath, more or less persistent; flowers corymbose; pedicels more or less glandular-hispid; hypanthium ellipsoid, more or less pubescent and glandular; sepals narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, caudate-attenuate, glandular and pubescent without, tomentose within, soon reflexed and in fruit deciduous, 15-20 mm. long, the outer sometimes lobed; petals white, 15-20 mm. long; styles exserted, united, hairy.
Type locality: Not given.
Distribution: Occasionally escaped from cultivation and naturalized in Jamaica, Porto Rico, and Alabama; native of southern Asia and Abyssinia.