BOTANICAL NOTES ON THE ROSE. 



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Sect. Centifolije. Plants bearing bristles and prickles ; bracteate ; leaflets oblong or ovate, 

 wrinkled; disk thickened enclosing the throat; sepals, compound. The species are all setige- 

 rous ; and all deciduous. 



R. damascena, Mill. (Damask Rose) A compact shrub of 2 to 4 feet high, with unequal 

 prickles, the larger ones falcate ; the flowers are large, white or red, single or double ; " sepals, 

 reflexed;" fruit elongate. Syn. : R. belgica, Mill; R. calendarum, Moench. ; R. bifera, 

 Poir. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1573 — Syria. 



R. centifolia, Linn, (hundred-leaved Pro- 

 vence, or Cabbage Rose). A shrub of 3 to 5 

 feet high, with unequal prickles, the large 

 ones falcate ; the leaflets ciliated with glands ; 

 flowers cernuous, white or red, single or (most 

 commonly) double; "sepals not reflexed;" 

 fruit oblong or roundish, not elongated. Syn. : 

 R. provincialis, Mill.; R. polyanthos, Rossig.; 

 R. caryophyllea, Poir.; R. unguiculata, Desf.; 

 R. varians, Pohl. — Var. mnscosa has the calyx 

 and peduncles mossy (R. muscosa, Mill. — Moss 

 Rose) ; Pomponia is smaller in every part (R. 

 pomponia De Cand.; R. burgundiaca, Pers.; 

 R. divionensis, Rossig. — Pompone Rose) ; bi- 

 pinnata has the leaves bipinnate (celery-leaved 

 Rose).— Fl. June and July— Cult. 1596— Cau- 

 casus. 



R. gallica, Linn. (French or officinal Rose). 



A compact shrub of 2 to 3 feet high, with 



weak nearly equal uniform prickles ; stiff 



elliptic leaflets ; flowers erect, red to crimson, 



single or double ; fruit nearly globose. Syn. : 



Rosa centifolia ; a, fruit of R. damascena sub-alba. R. centifolia, Mill.; R. sylvatica, Gater. ; R. 



rubra, Lam.; R. holosericea, Rossig.; R. belgica and R. blanda, Brot. Var. pumila has single 



flowers and a creeping root (R. pumila, Linn.; R. repens, Mcench.; R. austriaca, Crantz ; R. 



olympica, Bonn).— Fl. June and July— Cult. 1596— Central Europe. 



R. fygmjea, Bieb. (pigmy Rose). A shrub of about 2 feet high, with unarmed stems, the 

 branches hispid with prickles ; the leaflets ovate, acute, glandularly biserrated ; flowers red ; 

 fruit obovate. — Fl. June and July — Cult. ? . . . . — Tauria. 



R. parvifolia, JEhrh. (small-leaved or Burgundy Rose). A compact dark-looking bush of 

 1 to 2 feet high, with straight erect branches armed with slender unequal scattered, somewhat 

 falcate prickles, and a few setae ; leaves of 3-7 small stiff ovate leaflets ; flowers purple, very 

 double, overtopped by the young shoots. Syn. : R. burgundiaca, Rossig.; R. remensis, Besf. — 

 Fl. June and July — Cult. ? . . . . — Europe. 



R. pulchella, Willd. (neat Rose). A shrub of about 2 feet high, allied to R. turbinata, but 

 smaller, the prickles of the stem scattered, the peduncles and calyces beset with glandular 

 bristles, and the petioles with glandular pubescence, but unarmed ; flowers small. This is 

 perhaps the same as the Rose de Meaux of gardens.— Fl. June and July— Cult. ? 1824— France. 

 R. adenophylla, Willd. (gland-leaved Rose). A shrub of 4 or 5 feet high, the branches 

 armed with scattered prickles, the peduncles and calyces beset with glandular bristles, the 

 petioles with glandular pubescence but unarmed ; the leaves simply serrated, with glandular 

 margins, glaucous beneath ; flowers large, single, red.— Fl. June and July— Cult. 1816— Native 

 country unknown. 



