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Sect. Villosa. Plants with straightish prickles, and producing straight surculi {root shoots); 



leaflets ovate or oblong, icith diverging serra- 

 tures; sepals connivent persistent ; disk thick- 

 ened closing the throat. Deciduous shrubs, 

 mostly with erectish branches. 



R. turbinata, Ait. (Frankfort Rose). A 

 shrub of 4 to 6 feet, with the habit of R da- 

 mascena; the branches have equal straight 

 prickles, but no setae ; leaves villous beneath ; 

 flowers large, red, very double, the " tube of 

 the calyx turbinate." Syn. : R. campanulata, 

 Ehrh. ; R. francofortiana, Mcench. ; R. franc- 

 furtensis, Rossig. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 

 1629 — Germany. 



R. villosa, Linn, (villous Rose). A large 

 shrub, sometimes forming a small tree ; 

 branches very glaucous, with strong straight 

 (or somewhat falcate) equal prickles, the 

 branchlets with a few or no seta? ; leaves 

 large grey, of five unequal elliptic rugose 

 leaflets, downy all over, and coarsely serrated ; 

 flowers often in pairs, red or pink ; fruit ellip- 

 Rosa villosa. tical or globose, purplish red or crimson, 



with a grey bloom, bristly. Syn.: R. mollis, Smith; R. heterophylla, Woods; R. pul- 

 chella, Woods; R. pomifera, Herm. Var. sylvestri?, has flexuous stems, hooked prickles, 

 leaves hoary on both sides, and sepals deciduous before the ripening of the fruit (R. sylvestris, 

 Lindl.) ; resinosa, dwarf, grey, with narrow leaflets; Sherardi has conical hooked prickles, 

 leaflets downy on both sides, fruit globular, abrupt (R. Sherardi, Davies). — Fl. June and July- 

 Britain. 



R. boreykiana, Bess. (Boreykian Rose). A shrub of 6 to 8 feet high, the branches of 

 which are furnished with scattered recurved prickles ; the leaflets are doubly serrated, 

 pubescent beneath, and glandular on the margin ; the flowers are borne in corymbose clusters, 

 and are blush coloured; fruit oblong, glabrous. — Fl. June and July— Cult. 1827 — North of 

 Podolia. 



R. tomentosa, Smith (tomentose Rose). A spreading grey looking shrub of 7 or 8 feet high, 

 the branches armed with straight (rarely falcate) equal scattered prickles, and without setae ; the 

 leaves hoary, of about 5 oblong, or ovate obtuse leaflets ; the flowers are reddish, white at the 

 base ; fruit purplish elliptical, usually hispid. Syn. : R. villosa, Ehrh. ; R. mollissima, Bbrk ; 

 R. dubia, Wibel. Var. scabriuscida has greener leaves, nearly smooth except on the ribs 

 (R fcetida, Batard). — Fl. June and July — Britain. 



R. alba, Linn, (white Rose). A spreading greyish shrub of 6 or 7 feet high, with strong 

 branches armed with straightish slender scattered prickles, and no setae ; the leaves of 5 or 7 

 oblong glaucous leaflets; flowers large numerous white, or delicate blush, gratefully fragrant; 

 fruit oblong deep scarlet. Syn. : R. usitatissima, Gat. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1597 — Europe. 

 R. mollis, Led. (soft Rose). A shrub of 4 to 6 feet high, with glabrous unarmed branches, 

 and obtuse leaflets villous on both sides ; " ovaries ovate, glaucous, and prickly." Syn. : R. 

 Ledebourii, Spreng. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1818— Caucasus. 



R. tereeinthacea, Bess, (turpentine Rose). A shrub of 4 to 6 feet high, the branches of 

 which are armed with straight compressed prickles ; leaflets tomentose beneath ; flosvers blush, 

 in corymbose clusters ; fruit oblong, tapering to both ends, bristly. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 

 1825— Podolia. 



