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Rosa Lutea. Austrian Rose. 
2 Sak aia ch a de te 
-Clafs and Order. Le 
“Teosanpria PoLyGYNIA. 
3 Generic Charader. coun = 
Petala 5. Cal, urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coarétatuss 
Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri afhxa. 
_.. Specific Charadfer and Synonyms. . eo 
~ ROSA Jutea germinibus globofis pedunculifque glabris, caly- 
cibus petiolifque fpinulofis, aculeis ramorum reétis 
Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 201. Mill. Diff. ed. 6. 4to.. 
ROSA lutea fimplex. Baub. Pin. 483. The fingle yellow Rofe. | 
Prof. 
seals 
QUIN has given us a monograph on the genus 
Oxalis, which he has executed bighly to his honour; we wifh 
fome Botanift of equal abilities would do the fame by the 
genus Rofa, many of the {pecies of which are flill involved in 
great obfcurity: Mr. Arron inthe Hort. Kew. has taken much 
pains to elucidate many of them, and this one in particular, 
which he calls /wfea, a name it had previoufly obtained from | 
- Micter, and feveral older Botanifts; we wifh he had been lefs 
complaifant on this occafion, and given to it and the ful/phured 
_ (which he calls the double yellow rofe) epithets more difcri- 
-minative : bitherto the /itea has not been found that we know 
of in a double ftate, it poffibly may at fome future time; in | 
that cafe, the /u/ea and fulpburea will both havé the fame 
name :—to prevent confufion, we have thought it expedient to 
call the /atea the Auftrian Rofe, and the /ulpburea may be de- 
- nominated the Levant Rofe :—we are aware that names of this 
fort are not of the beft kind, and only to be adopted under 
certain circumftances. _ ees = 
This fpecies is found wild in Auftria, and other parts of 
Germany; was cultivated in this country in the time of GeraRD _ 
and Paxxinson: it is a fhrub of low growth, flowers in July, 
is very hardy, and readily propagated; authors differ as tc 
the fcent of its flowers, Mitts fays they have none, other 
_ very little, and others that the little they have is ‘very unplea- 
_ fant; hence it has been called by Attioni, Rofa fetida ; in 
point of colour, they are fubje€t to great variation; the red 
and yellow Auftrian Rofe is confidtred by Mr. Arron as its 
principal variety: it is our intention to give a figure of this 
very fhewy plant in fome future number of the Magazine, - 
when we hope further tc elucidate the fubje& by fome prac- — 
td 
tical obfervations. 
