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Rosa muscosa. Moss Rose. 
Clafs and Order . 
ICOSANDRIA PoLYGYKlA-* 
Generic Character* 
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coar&atus. 
Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. 
Specific Char after and Synonyms. 
ROSA mufcofa caule petiolifque aculeatis, pedunculis calyci- 
bufque pilofiffimis. Mill. Dift. 
If there be any one genus of plants more univerfally admi- 
red than the others, it is that of the Rofe — where is the Poet 
that has not celebrated it ? where the Painter that has not 
made it an objed of his imitative art? 
In the opinion of Miller, the Mofs Rofe, or Mofs Pro- 
vince, as it is frequently called, is a perfe&ly diftind fpecies; 
Linn/eus confiders it as a variety only of the centifolia : as it 
is found in our Nurferies in a double ftate only, and as we 
are ignorant of what country it is the produce, the decifion 
of this matter mull be left to future obfervation and inquiry. 
Though it may not increafe fo fall by fuckers, nor be 
increafed fo readily by layers, as the centifolia , there is no 
difficulty in propagating it either way; the latter mode is 
ufually adopted. 
