of the century, it is within the last fifteen years only that 
it has been seen living in its natural (single-flowered) con- 
dition. In this respect its history is that of the Lady 
Bank’s Rose, which was introduced at about the same time 
also in its double state, and of which the wild state has 
only very recently been cultivated. Of this, too, I hope 
shortly to give a figure in this work. 
hk. multiflora is a native of Japan, Corea, and Northern 
China, from all which countries there are copious suites of 
native specimens in the Kew Herbarium from many col- 
lectors. According to M. Maries, it is found in Japan at 
ail elevations between two thousand and seven thousand 
feet. In Franchet and Savat’s Enumeration of Japan Plants 
five varieties are enumerated, respectively called genuwina, 
platyphylla, microphylla, adenophora, and calva, but it is 
not stated whether these are indigenous or garden forms. 
That known as var. platyphylla has long been known in 
England, and is a most beautiful rose, with large leaves, 
and flowers twice the size of the ordinary multiflora, vary- 
ing from pale rose to deep rich crimson. Lindley, who 
gives an excellent figure of it (Bot. Reg. t. 1872), calls it 
the most beautiful of all the climbing roses of our gardens, 
but adds that the young shoots are apt to be destroyed by. 
frosts if not matted in winter. Under this variety he 
cites as a synonym R. flava of Donn’s Hortus Canta- 
bridgensis, Ed. iv., but as Donn states that his plant of 
that name is yellow, it is more probably R. Banksie. 
According to the Hortus Kewensis, R. multiflora (the double 
form) was brought to Kew about 1804 by Thomas Evans, 
Esq., and the very appropriate name of “ Bramble-flowered 
ose’ was given to it. That of “The Seven Sisters ” is, 
according to Lindley, the Chinese name of the var. platy- 
phylla. The single-flowered multiflora was first published 
as a cultivated plant in the “Revue Horticole” for 1876, 
under the name of I. polyantha; and the specimens were 
procured from a nursery, their origin being presumably 
unknown. 
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and affinities, I must refer to 
tions cited above, which le 
: ave nothing to be desired. 
Botanists cannot be too grateful to that author’s admirable 
labours in this most difficult g 
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M, Crepin’s critical observa- 
