70 ROSA PARVIFOLIA. 
R. gallica has many points in common with R. 
centifolia. They may be distinguished in any state by 
the stiff upright flowerstalks, want of large prickles, 
rigid leaves and smaller petals with shorter sepals of 
the former; its mode of growth is more compact and 
stature generally less. Its leaves are moreover never 
edged with glands, which those of centifolia always 
are. 
Forskahl’s Rosa gallica, which he mentions as 
growing at Constantinople as high as the houses, and 
with double white flowers, cannot possibly be this. 
Could he mistake R. moschata for it? which is known 
to be cultivated there. 
42. ROSA parvifolia. ‘ 
R. nana, armis subzqualibus, foliolis rigidis ovatis 
acutis argute serratis, sepalis ovatis. 
R. parvifolia Ehr. beitr. 6. 97. Willd. sp. 2. 1078. 
ers. syn. 2. 50. Smith in Rees inl. Bot. reg. 
t. 452. 
R. burgundiaca Réss. ros. ¢t.4. Gmel. bad. als. 2. 431. 
Brot. lus. 1. 339. 
R. remensis Desf. cat. 175. Decand. fl. fr. 4. 443. 
Mer. par. 191. 
Hab. in montibus Divionensibus, (Durand) (v. v. c.) 
A little dark, compact, blueish gray plant. Branches 
somewhat glaucous, straight, erect, slender, armed 
with unequal, scattered, slender, somewhat falcate 
prickles and a few setze. Leaves on the strongest shoots 
at least twice as long as the joints, on the branchlets 
very densely aggregated ; stipules linear, nearly naked, 
fringed with glands, bright green; petioles hairy, hav- 
