( 3475 ) 
Rosa CENTIFOLIA, muscosa; cristata. 
Crestep var. of the Moss Rosr. 
KEKE REE KERR ER EK EEE 
Class and Order. 
IcosANDRIA PoLnyeynia. 
( Nat. Ord. —Rosace#. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir- 
suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. 
Specific Character and Spnonyms. 
Rosa centifolia ; armis inequalibus majoribus falcatis, folio- 
lis glanduloso-ciliatis, floribus cernuis, calycibus visco- 
sis, fructu oblongo. Lindl. 
Rosa centifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 704. Lindl: Ros. p. 64. 
(8.) muscosa; calycibus pedunculisque muscosis. Land. 
L. oh 
Rosa muscosa. Mill. Dict. n. 22. Sims, Bot: Mag. t. 69. 
(«.) cristata. (Tab. nostr. 3475.) ‘ 
The Moss Rose of our gardens, having been by Professor — 
Linb-ey, in his excellent work above quoted, satisfactorily, 
as we think, referred to Rosa centifolia, we rank this plant 
as a subvariety of that well-known favourite of our gardens, 
and proceed to extract from Mr. Curtis’s letter the remarks 
that accompanied the beautiful drawing, from the pencil 
of Miss Apams, daughter of Capt. Apams, R. N. of Witham, 
Kssex. 
« This variety of the’Moss Rose, like many of the more 
novel sorts, was obtained from France. Independently of 
_ the curious mode in which the moss springs in tufts from 
the edges of its calyx, giving to the early buds a most 
remarkable appearance, this Rose, when fully ie ara is 
arge, 
