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ROSA provincialis. (3. muscosa ; fl. simpl. 

 Single-flowered Moss- Provins Rose. 



ICOSANDMA POL YGYXIA. 



ROSA. Supra fol. 46. 



R. provincialis, fructibus subrotundis, pedunculis petiolisque hispidis, 

 aculeis ramorum sparsis subreflexis, foliolis ovatis subtus villosis ; ser- 

 raturis glandulosis. Hort. Kew. 2. 204. 

 Rosa provincialis. Du lioi harbk. 2. 349. Willi, sp. ph 2. 1070. arb. 

 314. ^ Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. 18. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 261. Smith in 

 J Rees's Cyclop, sub Rosa n. 26. 



I R. burgundiaca ; provincialis. Persoon. syn. 2. 48. 



R. provincialis major, fl. pi. ruberrimo. Botrh. ind. alt. 2. 252. 



Common Provins Rose, Mia Lawr. ros. t. 8. 



Scarlet Provins Rose. Miss Later, t. 22. 



Blush Provins Rose. Miss Later, t. I. 



n bite Provins Rose. Miss Later, t. 4. , 



Childing's Provins Rose. Miss Later, t. 45. 



Bland ford or Portugal Rose. Miss Later, t. 21* 



(/3) Calyx pedunculi petioli ramulique glanduloso-viscosi. 



Rosa muscosa. Mill. diet. ed. 8. ft. 22. Du lioi harbk. 2. 368. Hort. 



Kew. 2. 207. ed. 2. 3. 264. Brotero Ji. lusit. 345. Rossi g rosen. 



cah. 2. t. 6. 

 R. provincialis spinosissima, pedunculo muscoso. Cat. pi. hort. londin. 



(J. D. 1730; 66. t. 13. 

 R. rubra pi. spinosissima, peduueulo muscoso. Mill. ic. 148. t. 22 1.,/, 



1. Boerh.ind.alt. 2.252. 

 Double Moss Provins Rose. Curtis 9 s mag. 6Q. Miss Lawr. ros. 14. 

 Double white Moss Provins Rose. 

 Single red Moss Provins Rose. Supra. 

 (y) Folia floresque duplo minores. 

 Rose de Meaux. Miss Lawr. t. 31. 



Pompon Rose. Curtis I mag. 407. Miss Later, ros. t. 50. 

 Rose de Rheims. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 71. 

 To which are most akin ; Rose St. Francis. Jftitf Laor. ros. t . 88. 



Shailer's Rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 76. 



In most of the late systematic enumerations of plants, the 

 Moss Rose stands recorded as a separate species, by the title 

 of muscosa. But in the more recent account of the genus by 

 Sir James Smith, we find it merged as a variety in .pr+> 

 vincialis. That it is one either of that or centijoha, is an 



opinion that dates from the first mention of the plant. The 



