18 PARSONS ON THE ROSE. 



is increased by drying. They are also used in common 

 with those of M. centifolia^ for making rose-water and 

 attar of roses. This rose was called by old writers the 

 Red Rose, and is supposed to have been the one assumed 

 as the badge of the House of Lancaster. This, also, is 

 one of the roses mentioned by Pliny ; from which, he 

 says, all the others have been derived. It is often con- 

 founded with the Damask rose. 



Varieties. The varieties of this species are very numer- 

 ous. One of the most distinct is Var. parvifolia. (R. 

 parvifolia, Ehr. R. Burgundiaca, Hossig. R. remensis, 

 Desf.) The Burgundy Rose. — A dwarf, compact shrub, 

 with stiff, ovate acute, and sharply serrated small leaflets, 

 and very double purple flowers, which are solitary, and 

 have some resemblance, in form and general appearance, 

 to the flower of a double-flowered Asiatic Ranunculus. . 



VILLOS-ffi.— Hairt Roses. 



Suckers erect. Prickles straightish. Leaflets ovate or 

 oblong, with diverging serratures. Sepals connivent, per- 

 manent. Disk thickened, closing the throat. This divi- 

 sion borders equally close upon those of Caninae and Rubi- 

 ginosae. From both it is distinguished by its root-suckers 

 being erect and stout. ' The most absolute marks of dif- 

 ference, however, between this and Caninae, exist in the 

 prickles of the present section being straight, and the ser- 

 ratures of the leaves diverging. If, as is sometimes the 

 case, the prickles of this tribe are falcate, the serratures 

 become more diverging. The permanent sepals are an- 

 other character by which this tribe may be known from 

 Caninae. Rubiginosae cannot be confounded with the 

 present section, on account of the unequal hooked prick- 

 les and glandular leaves of the species. Roughness of 

 fruit and permanence of sepals are common to both. 



