R0SACE.1:. 100 ROSA. 



like prickles. Leaflets 7—9, roundish, obtuse. Flowers with a pleasant fra- 

 grance, usually cream-colored, but changing in the numerous varieties, to 

 shades of red, white and yellow. Burnet or Scotch Rose. 



9. R. lu'tea. 



PrichJrs straight ; leaflets flat, concave ; calyx nearly naked, entire. Native 

 of German3^ Stems with numerous prickles. Leaves dark green, shinino- 

 with Fmallish leaflets. Petals large, broad-obcordate, of a golden yellow. 

 Giovvs about 3 feet high. Flowers of a less agreeable odor than the leaves. 



Yelloio Rose. 



10. R. cani'na. 



Stem and pet'ioles prickly ; leaves ovate, smooth ; fruit and ■peduncles smooth. 

 This species of the Hose is inferior to none in elegance or fragrance. Native 

 of Europe. Shrub 6 — 8 feet high. Leaflets usually 7, of a dark, shining 

 green above, paler beneath. Flowers pink-colored, in. Dog-Rose. 



11. R. MUSCO'SA. 



Calyx and peduncles mossy ; hranchcs and pct/o/es hispid and viscid ; leaflets 

 glandular-ciliate. The Moss Rose is the very emblem of beauty and loveli- 

 ness. The color of the flower is usually that peculiar crimson blush, called 

 rose-color, and its fragrance delightful. Shrub 3 feet high. Native of Eu- 

 rope. Ju. Jl. ^ Moss Rose. 



12. R, masca'ta. 



Branchlets nearly naked; leaflets elliptical, acuminate, glaucous beneath, 

 with connivent serratures; panicles rnany-flowered, and with the calyx dow- 

 ny. Barbary. Its stems are trailing or climbing, some 10 or 12 feet long, 

 smooth, with scattered prickles. Flowers rather large, numerous, white, m 

 terminal panicles, very tragraut. Musk Rose. 



13. R. centifo'lia. 



£rms unequal, the larger ones falcate; leaflets glandular-ciliate ; forcers 

 nodding ; calyx viscid ; fruit oblong. S. Europe. Shrub 3 feet high, very 

 prickly. Flower usually of a pink-color, but varying in hue, form, size, &c. 

 through near a hundred varieties, described and named in European cata- 

 logues. Hundred-leaved or Provens Rose., 



14. R. MULTIFLO'RA. 



Branchlets, pcdundes and calyx downy ; leaflets lanceolate, soft, rugose ; 

 .'Stipules pectinate. Japan. A shrub of luxuriant growth, easily trained to the 

 hight of a dozen feet. Flowers numerous, in clusters, with numerous, imbri- 

 cated pink petals. Japan Rose. 



15. R. sempervi'rens. 



Rant shoots climbing ; prickles nearly equal, falcate ; leaves evergreen. From 

 S. Europe. A shrub, of rapid and luxuiiant growth, trailing or climbinor 20 

 feet, in favorable circumstances. Leaves shining, evergreen. Flowers 

 white. Evergreen Rose. 



p. subdecidua, with leaves somewhat deciduous. 



16. R. al'ba. 



Leaflets ohlnn^, glaucous, simpl}^ serrate ; sepals rcRexed ; fruit unar.med 

 Germany. Shrub f) — G feet high. Flowers large, corymbose, sweet-sceuted. 



