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46. ROSA alba. 
foliolis oblongis glaucis supra ne Rag simpliciter 
serratis, sepalis reflexis, fructu ine 
sativa Dodon. pempt. 186. ¢t. 1. : 
candida plena et semiplena Bawh. hist, 2. 44. 
5 i Malai fl. pl. albo. Besl. eyst. vern. ord. 6. 
eee 
a 
alba Linn! sp. 705. Mill. dict. n. 16. All. pedem. 
2, 139. Lour. cochin, 323? Willd. sp. 2. 1080. 
Minch meth. 689. Lawr. ros. tt. 23. 25. 32. 37. 
Decand. fl. fr. 4. 448. Pers. syn. 2. 49. Ait. 
kew. ed. alt. 3. 267. Gmel. bad. als. 2.427. FI. 
dan. 1215. Smith! in Rees in i Pew enum. 94, 
Redout. ros. 1. 97. t. 34—117. 
R. usitatissima Gat. montaub. 94. 
Hab. in Pedemontio, (Allioni); Cochinchina? (Lou- 
reiro); in sepibus Fioniz, (Fi. dan.); Gallia, (De- 
cand.) ; Hessiz et Saxoniz, (Roth). (v. v. c.) 
Six or seven feet high, spreading, very grey. 
Branches strong, dull, glaucous, on the sunny side 
sometimes red, armed with straightish or falcate, slen- 
der or strong, unequal, scattered prickles and no sete. 
Leaves dull, glaucous ; stipule narrow, flat, elongated 
at the end, nearly naked, serrated and fringed with 
glands ; petioles downy, glandular and prickly ; leaflets 
7 or 5, large, rugose, ovate, or near ly round, obtuse or 
with a little point, simply serrated with pointed teeth, 
above naked, beneath downy and very pale. Flowers 
large, numerous, either white or of the most delicate 
blush colour, frequently double; bractee lanceolate, 
downy, straight, concave; peduncles with unequal weak 
setze; tube of the calyx _~ naked or bristly at the 
