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ROSA CENTIFOLIA. 65 
R. provincialis y Smith in Rees in 1. 
R. centifolia z. Redout. ros. 1. 113. t. 41. 
8 bipinnata, foliis bipinnatis. . 
R. centifolia bipinnata Pers. syn. 2.48. Redout. ros. 
Rott, ¢. 4: 
Hab. in Cancasi orientalis nemorosis (Bieb.) (v. v. c.) 
This has much the appearance of the last, but may 
be distinguished by its sepals not being reflexed at any 
period, the flowers full double, and the petals very 
large, whence the name of Cabbage Rose, by which it 
is usually known. Its fruit is either oblong or roundish; 
but never elongated. From gallica it may be told by 
its flowers being cernuous, and by the larger size of its 
prickles, with a more robust habit. It is well known 
that these plants are usually propagated by inlaying; 
but it is somewhat curious that, although the layers of 
R. damascena strike root readily, those of centifolia 
and gallica do not. 
Sir James Smith is disposed to agree with those 
who think this a native of the south of Europe; but 
the places in which it has been reported to grow wild, 
in that quarter, are manifestly too suspicious to be ad- 
mitted as authority for the habitat of a species so uni- 
versally cultivated. I prefer, therefore, to place its 
native country in Asia, because it has been found wild 
by Bieberstein, with double flowers, on the eastern side 
of Mount Caucasus, whither it is not likely to have 
escaped from a garden. Perhaps the celebrated Rose 
of Schiraz, in praise of which Kzmpfer says so much, 
may be this also, or damascena; we have, however, no 
materials for more than conjecture. The flowers of 
this are chiefly used for obtaining distilled Rose water ; 
those of gallica for drying. 
Pohl, in his Flora Bohemica, has considered gal- 
lica and provincialis as varieties of each other. I am 
much rather disposed to agree with Borkhausen and 
French botanists, in taking the provincialis of Miller 
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