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ROSA GALLICA. RED OFFICINAL ROSE. 
5 TNO NYMJ. Rofa rubra. Pharm. Lond. & Edlnb. Gerard. 
i. Rait Hijl. p. 1470. Rofa rubra multiplex. 
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Baub. Pin. p. 481. Bu Hamel Arbr. 2. j>. 222. t. $3. Rofa rub 
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lica. Park* Par ad. /. 413 
Rofa caule fubjnermi, foliis quinis fubtus villofis, calycis foliolis in 
divifis. Mill. Dia. 
$ Rofa Praeneftina variegata plena. Mill. ic. 148. /. 221. f. 2. 
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Mundi Rose. 
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Marbled Rose. 
* Virgin Rose. 
Clqfs Icofandria. Ord. PoLygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 631. 
* 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo 
coar&atus. Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. 
Sp. Ch. R. germinibus ovatis pedunculifque hifpidis, caule petiolifquc 
hifpido-aculeatis. 
THIS fpecies does not rife fo high as the Centifolia, but much 
refembles it in its foliage. Linnseus refts their fpecific difference 
on the greater roughnefs and pricklinefs of the leaf-ftalks of the 
gallica, but from the obfervations we have made, this circumftance 
is not fufnciently remarkable to found the diftindion. The petals of 
this fpecies, though large and fpreading, are never half fo numerous 
as in the centifolia, and are of a deep crimfon colour. It is a native 
ot the fouth of Europe, and is now common in our gardens, flowering 
in June and July. 
"The flowers give out their virtue both to watery and reclined 
ipint, and tinge the former of a fine red colour, but the latter of a 
very pale one : the extraft obtained by infpiffating the watery info- 
