( 1794 ) 



Rosa gallica (3. versicolor). Striped Red 

 Rose, or Rosa Mlndi. 



Class and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarc- 

 tatus. Se?n. plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 * * fructibus ovatis. 



Rosa gallica ; fructibus ovatis pedunculisque hispidis, caule 



petiolisque hispido-aculeatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 



p. 262. 

 03.) versicolor. Rosa Mundi. Miss Lawr. Roses, t. 13. 



MartynMill. Diet. n. 16. 

 Rosa rubro et albo variegata, Rosa Mundi,, vulgo dicta 



(Mundy Rose), km. Hist. 1475. n. 35. 

 Rosa versicolor, Passe D'Angleterre. Weinm. Phyt. vol. 5. 



p. 231. b. ic. 869. a. 



Rosa Mundi, or, as it was formerly corruptly called, the 

 Mundy Rose, is a variety of the Common Red Rose ; the 

 dried petals of which have for so many years maintained a 

 place in the Materia Medica of every civilized country, 

 though, perhaps, in modern practice, more for the sake of 

 the colour, and as forming- an agreeable menstruum for more 

 active remedies, than from any dependance upon its own 

 virtues. 



This variety, though mentioned by Ray, and supposed to 

 have been more common in England than elsewhere, does 

 not occur in either Gerard or Parkinson. When in perfect 

 health, with its foliage undefaced by insects or mildew, it is 

 perhaps not exceeded in beauty by any rose cultivated in our 

 gardens. 



Communicated by — Owen, Esq. of Clapham. 



