ae 
A98 ORD. XXVII. Senticosa. ROSA CENTIFOLIA, 
gency, and has been highly recommended for its cordial and 
analeptic qualities.“ These flowers also contain a bitterish sub- 
substance, which is extracted by water along with the odorous 
principle, and remains entire in the decoction after the latter has 
been separated by distillation or evaporation. This fixed sapid 
matter of the petals manifests a purgative quality, and it is on this 
account that the flowers are received in the Materia Medica. 
The pharmacopeeias direct a syrup to be prepared of this rose, 
which in doses of a spoonful is found to be pleasant and useful 
as a laxative for children, or to obviate costiveness in adults. The 
simple distilled rose-water seems to have nothing but its fragrance 
to recommend it. 
* F. Hoffman, Obs, phys. chem. p. 21. * Lewis, 0. c 
rr 
ROSA GALLICA. : RED OFFICINAL ROSE. 
SYNONYMA. Rosa rubra. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard. 
Emac, p. 1261. Raii. Hist. p. 1470. Rosa rubra multiplex. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 481. Du Hamel Arbr, 2. p. 222. t. 53. Rosa 
rubra anglica. Park. Parad. p. 413. 
Rosa caule subinermi, foliis quinis subtus villosis, calycis foliolis 
indivisis. Mill. Dict. 
# Rosa Prenestina variegata plena, Mill. ic. 148. t. 221. f. 2. 
| Mundi Rose. 
y Marbled Rose. 
3 Virgin Rose. 
Class Icosandria, Ord, Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 631. 
