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ROSA parvifolia. 
Burgundy. Hose. 
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ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosacE®. Jussieu. gen. 334. Div. II. Rose. 
ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. VI. Centifolie. Setigere, armis difformibus; bracteate. Foliola ob- 
longa vel ovata, rugosa. Discus incrassatus faucem claudens. Sepala 
(foliola calycina) composita. Lindley monogr. 60. 
R. parvifolia, nana, armis subzequalibus, foliclia rigidis ovatis acutis argute 
serratis, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) ovatis. Lindley monogr. 70. n. 42. 
Rosa parvifolia. Ehrhart beytr. 6.97. Willd.-sp. pl. 2. 1078. Persoon syn. 
2.50. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Rosa remensis. Desfont. cat. 175. Decand. fl. franç. 4. 443. Mer. par. 
191. 
Rosa burgundiaca. Rössig rosen. t. 4. Gmel. bad. als. 2. 431. Brotero 
» lusit. 1. 339. 
LM fusca compacta casia: rami subglaucescentes,stricti, erecti, graciles, 
aculeis inequalibus tenuibus subfalcatis setis parce intermixtis armati. Folia 
surculorum adultiorum bis saltém internodiis longiora, ramulorum novellissi- 
‘simorum confertissimè aggregata; stipulae lineares, subnude, glandulis ci- 
liate, lucidé virentes; petioli pilosi, aculeolis paucis robustis subtùs armati, 
glandulosi; foliola 3-7, sepissimé 5, parva, rigida, ovata, acuta, plana, 
‘subtilissime et simpliciter dentata dentibus hinc glandulá donatis, suprà 
saturate opacéque virentia rugosa atque nuda, subtüs cinereo-pallentia va- 
ricoso-venosa costé mediá pilosá, par imum, cum paria trinis plura, ple- 
rümque exiguissimum. lores solitarii, ramulis novellis exsuperati, ebrac- 
teati, purpurei, seriebus multiplicibus petalorum semper repleti; peduncu- 
lus depilis, setis paucis invalidis adspersus: calycis tubus ovatus, nudus; 
foliola (sepala) ovata cum acumine, subsimplicia, concava, reflexa, pilosa 
glandulisque adspersa, plurimim breviora petalis: petala patentia, preter 
interiora partim. germinibus provenientia arctissimeque imbricantia; styli 
pilosi, aliquantulum. exserta, à pube sud invicèm coherentes. Lindley loc. 
cit, (ex angl, versum). 
Through the ingenious and'instructive Monograph of the 
Roses with which Mr. Lindley has just presented the pub- 
lie, the history of that intricate group has been freed by 
sound criticism from tbe obscurity and ambiguity which 
have hitberto perplexed the study of it, and its bounds 
largely extended by newly observed and curious species 
illustrated by original descriptions and admirably charac- 
teristic figures. 
The subject of this article is found under the section Cen- 
tifolie, a section named after its assumed type the Rosa cen- 
tifolia of Linnzus, of which the Rosa provincialis of suc- 
