66 ROSA CENTIFOLIA. 
and the centifolia of Linneeus to be the same. On this 
head no information is to be obtained from the Linnzean 
herbarium, and therefore other means must be used to 
ascertain the truth of the opinion. 
There can be little doubt that Linnzus was ac- 
quainted with the Provins and Officinal Roses, and it 
is highly probable that he had them both growing in 
the garden at Upsal. Admitting this to be so, it is 
far more reasonable to suppose that he would distin- 
guish these from each other, than that he would select 
for a species so trifling a variety of one of them (gal- 
lica), as the Dutch hundred-leaved Rose is, and would 
at the same time not notice so different a looking plant 
as the Provins. Let us see how far this is confirmed 
by his publications. 
R. centifolia, in the first edition of Species Planta- 
rum, appears with the character “ caule aculeato, pe- - 
duneulis hispidis, calycibus semipinnatis  glabris,” 
which, as far as it can belong to either the Provins or 
hundred-leaved Rose, is equally applicable to both. 
He quotes R. multiplex media Bauh. pin. 482, which, 
from the reference to R. centifolia batavica secunda of 
Clus. hist. 1, 114, also cited by Linnzeus, appears to 
be a sort of small Provins Rose; since Clusius expressly 
says it is intermediate between his centifolia batavica 
alba, which is the White Provins Rose, and his centi- 
folia batavica prima. In the second edition of Species 
Plantarum the character is altered to “ germinibus 
ovatis pedunculisq. hispidis, caule hispido acuieato, pe- 
tiolis inermibus,” which applies pretty well to the Pro- 
vins Rose and not at all to the other. The same re- 
ferences are continued, and R. rubra plena spinosissima 
pedunculo muscoso of Mill. dict. t. 221, f..1, which is a 
tolerably good figure of the Moss Rose, is added as 
probably belonging to it. Now this he never would 
ae guessed to be a variety of the Hundred-leaved 
ose 
In his earlier publication, the Hortus Cliffortianus, 
his R. No. 1. which is the same as his R. centifolia, 
