ROSA CENTIFOLIA. 67 
has the additional quotation of R. centifolia rubra of 
Besler’s Hort. eyst. vern. 92. f. 4. which is really one 
of the hundred-leaved Roses; but which it is fair to 
presume he afterwards discovered to be so, and conse- 
quently erased, as it does not appear in his subsequent 
publications. The other references to R. maxima mul- 
tiplex and R. hollandica rubella plena, quibusdam centi- 
folia spinoso frutice of Bauh. hist. 236, unquestionably 
belong to the Provins Rose. 
Miller, however, judging from the name centifolia, 
rather than from the specific character or references of 
Linnzeus, concluded too hastily that the Dutch hun- 
dred-leaved Roses were intended. But as these were 
evidently no varieties of the Provins Rose, he proposed 
the latter as a new species, and, without further exa- 
mination, he has been followed by subsequent writers 
in this country. 
The Moss Rose is a mere variety of the common 
appearance of the Provins. Messrs. Lee and Kennedy 
possess a plant which produces both indiscriminately ; 
and Sir James Smith was informed in Italy that the 
mossiness disappears almost immediately in that cli- 
mate. 
The Pompone, strangely confounded with the Bur- 
gundy Rose by some, is smaller in all its parts; and 
the next variety, the celery-leaved Rose of the French 
gardens, is a singular monstrosity with mis-shapen bi- 
pinnate leaves. I have seen a similar variety of R. ca- 
nina growing in Mr. Sabine’s garden. 
