Xlviii GARDEN BOTANY. 



It. sulphurea, the old Yelloav Rose. Tall, with scattered straight 

 prickles, glaucous or pale leaves, and sulphur-yellow (double) flowers. 



It. Eglanteria, Yellow Eglantine Rose. Like a Sweet-Brier, but 

 lower, 3°- 5° high, with straight prickles ; leaves deep-green (not pale, as in 

 the last) ; flowers deep yellow, and sometimes variegated with red, either 

 single or double. 



It. Damasoena, Damask Rose. Flowers white or red, single or 

 double ; the parent of many sorts, such as the Red and White Monthly, York 

 and Lancaster, Sec. ; distinguished from the next by its greener bark and larger 

 (curved) prickles, long rejlexed sepals, and elongated hips. 



It. eentifolia, Provence, Cabbage, and Hundred-leaved Rose. 

 Flowers drooping, large, white, blush, or red, mostly full double, and the pet- 

 als curved inwards ; calyx clammy ; the hips short or roundish ; prickles un- 

 equal, the larger ones curved. 



Var. muscosa, the Moss-Roses of various sorts, have the clammy 

 glands of the calyx grown out into a moss-like covering. 



It. Galliea, French Rose. Flowers red or crimson (sometimes white) ; 

 of many varieties ; differs from the last by the rigid coriaceous leaflets, erect 

 flowers, and spherical hips ; less sweet-scented, and petals more astringent. 



It. alba, White Rose. Flowers white or with a delicate blush, fragrant ; 

 sepals pinnate, reflexed, but conniving and remaining on the oblong hip ; 

 prickles straightish ; leaflets glaucous. "Many common varieties. 



It. Indiea, Tea Rose. Came from China, and has furnished endless 

 sorts ; the leaflets are only 3 or 5, ovate, acuminate, thickish, smooth, and 

 shining. Noisette Roses' are thought to have originated in a cross between 

 this and the Musk Rose. 



It. semperflorens, Perpetual China or Bengal Rose. Many 

 sorts, usually with red or crimson flowers, with very little fragrance ; leaflets 

 as in the last, from which they probably originated, at least in part. 



It. Lawrenceana, Fairy Rose. Dwarf, very small-flowered Chinese 

 Roses, often only 6 inches high, which came from the last. 



It. Bailksiee, Banksia Rose. A slender, tall climbing species from 

 China, cult, in greenhouses, well marked by having no prickles, 3 to 5 lanceo- 

 late leaflets, and very small (white or buff, violet-scented) flowers, many 

 together in an umbel-like corymb. 



* * Styles cohering in a column which projects out of the calyx-cup. 



It. multiflora, Many-flowered Rose. A well-known climbing spe- 

 cies, from Japan and China, with 5 or 7 soft and somewhat rugose leaflets, 

 slender scattered prickles, and full corymbs of small flowers, white or pale 

 red, not sweet-scented. The Boursalt Rose is a more hardy, climbing, red 

 Rose, said to come from the multi/lora, but probably from a cross with somo 

 hardy European species. 



It. moschata, Musk Rose. Rambling, but hardly climbing, with re- 

 curved prickles; the leaflets lanceolate, pointed, nearly smooth ; flowers white, 

 with a yellowish base to the petals, mostly simple, in umbel-like clusters, very 

 fragrant, especially at evening. 



It. sempervirens, Evergreen Rose. Climbing, hardy at the South, 

 with 'coriaceous bright green leaves, curved prickles, and nearly solitary white 

 flowers, not double. The Ayrshire Rose is a more hardy variety, the leaves 

 deciduous. 



10. Cotoneaster vulgaris is a low shrub, sparingly planted, with the small 

 oval leaves white-downy beneath, and small greenish-white flowers ; the fruit 

 like that of Hawthorns, but including 3 or 4 little seed-like stones. 



