Parkinson describes R. incarnata as “very thick and 
double, very variable in the flower, some paler as if blasted, _ 
which cometh not casually but naturally to this Rose” 
The best flowers he says are “ of a bright Murrey colour, 
near unto the velvet Rose, but nothing so dark in 
colour.” 
Miller calls it the Blush Rose (a name now usurped by 
R. alba), and adds that it flowers with the York and 
Lancaster roses, after the Damask, but before the Pro- 
vences. 
I can find no notice of the Rosa incarnata of Miller in 
any subsequent systematic botanical or horticultural work 
till 1857, when Boreau resuscitated it in the second edition 
of his Flore du Centre de Ja France, since which it has 
been recognized by all authors on the genus. There is 
indeed a variety of alba, Linn., called incarnata, established 
by Persoon, and taken up by De Candolle in the Pro- 
dromus (vol. ii. p. 622), where it is identified with the 
** Rose cuisse de Nymphe” of French gardeners; but Lt. 
alba has very different foliage from incarnata, and can 
never have been confounded with it. This, however, ac- 
counts for Steudel referring Miller’s imcarnata doubtfully 
to R. alba. 
Rosa incarnata is one of the Gallicane group of Crepin, 
the latest and most learned writer on the genus, and is 
nearest to ft. gallica, of which some botanists may be 
supposed to regard it as a variety. This may account in 
part for its being overlooked as a species, but not for the 
omission of the name in all descriptive works. Crepin ~ 
diagnoses it by the unarmed petioles, elliptic-ovate leaflets | 
pale and pubescent beneath with glandular doubly serrate 
margins, and the ovoid glandular calyx-tubes. It is a 
native of various widely separated districts in France, and 
is also found nearGeneva. Lastly, Mr. Baker has referred 
me to the figure of the rose ‘‘ Baroness Rothschild,” 
figured in Paul’s ‘‘ Rose Garden,” Hd. 9, p. 262, a hybrid 
perpetual, as perhaps nearly related to R. incarnata. 
The specimen figured was kindly communicated by the 
Rey. Canon Ellacombe, whose collection of species of Rosa 
is famous, and has contributed largely to that of Kew.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Fruit of the natural size; 2, achene, enlarged. 
