eS 
BBL Nig = hina te ete ee 
ROSA CANINA. ORD. XXVII. Senticose. A95 
and obtains a place in the London Pharmacopeeia, in the form of 
a conserve; for this purpose the seeds and chaffy fibres are to be 
carefully removed; for if these prickly fibres are not entirely 
scraped off from the internal surface of the heps, the conserve is 
liable to produce considerable irritation on the prime via. This 
officinal preparation of the fruit is not supposed to possess any 
medical virtue,* but it is agreeable to the taste, and well suited 
to give form to the more active articles of the Materia Mediea. 
* Formerly however it was esteemed useful in many disorders, as dropsies, calcu- 
Jous complaints, dysenteries, hemorrhages, &c. See Herman, Diss. de Rosa. §. 11. 
A moss-like prickly excrescence, called Bedeguar, Rose sponge, and by the 
French Galle chevelué, is frequently found upon the branches of this tree, and is 
ihe habitation of the insect Cynips Rosa. ‘This excrescence was formerly in great 
repnte as a remedy for various diseases. See Gendornius, reer gid, Pp. 
136. sqq. 
ROSA CENTIFOLIA. HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE. 
TS 
SYNONYMA. Rosa damascena. Pharm. Lond. Rosa pallida. 
Pharm, Edinb. Rosa multiplex media. Bauh. Pin. p. 482. 
Rosa Hollandica sive Batava. Gerard, Emac. p. 1262. Rosa 
centifolia batavica. 11 Clus. Hist. i. p. 114. 
The varieties of this species, according to Mr. Aiton, are 
Dutch Hundred Leav’d Rose. 
Blush Hundred Leav’d Rose. 
Singleton’s Hundred Leav'd Rose. 
Burgundy Rose. 
Single Veldct- Rose. 
Double Velvet Rose, 
Sultan Rose. 
Stepney Rose. 
Garnet Rose. 
Bishop Rose. 
Lisbon Rose. 
