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RO^SA. 



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618. .arvensis 



Leaflets ovate, 



Sepals almost entire, short. Styles cohering into an 

 elongated glabrous column. Fruit ovate, or ovate-globose, 

 coriaceous, crimson, glabrous, or a little hispid, as well as 

 the peduncles. (Dec. Prod.) Trailing, or climbing, decidu- 

 ous ; in some situations sub-evergreen. Europe, in many 

 places ; in England, in hedges and thickets and the 

 borders of fields, chiefly in the midland counties. Stems 

 20 ft. to 40 ft. Flowers white ; July. Fruit dark blood- 

 coloured ; ripe in September. 



Varieties. Several varieties are enumerated in catalogues ; 

 the following appear distinct, and of general interest : 

 1 -* fl_ *~- R. a. 2 ayreshirea Ser. R. capreolata 

 Neill in Edm. Phil. Journ. No. 3. p. 102. 

 Sub-everg'reen. Prickles slender, very acute, 

 sharply serrated, thin, nearly of the same colour on both surfaces. 

 Peduncles hispid with glanded hairs, or wrinkled. A vigorous- 

 growing climber, producing shoots sometimes 20ft. in length in 

 one season, and flowering profusely from the middle of May to the 

 middle of September. One of the hardiest of climbing roses, and 

 particularly useful for covering naked walls, or unsightly roofs. Cul- 

 tivated in British gardens under the name of the Ayrshire Rose. 

 -I -* R. a. 3 hybrida Lindl. Ros. 113. has semidouble flowers, of a most 

 delicate flesh colour, and is called, in the nurseries, the double hip 

 rose ; the term hip rose being applied by gardeners to the com- 

 monest wild roses. 



In open situations, a trailing plant, sometimes rooting at the joints ; but, 

 in hedges and among bushes, a climber by elongation ; reaching to their tops, 

 and covering them with tufts of foliage and flowers ; the leaves remaining on 

 late in the season ; and the fruit often remaining on all the winter. The 

 shoots are, in general, feeble, much divided, and entangled ; and they gene- 

 rally produce, here and there, rugged excrescences, which readily take root. 



B. Species Natives of Middle Europe. 

 fl- !U 55. R. (A.) SEMPERVI^RENS Lin. The evergreen (Field) Rose. 



Identification.. Lin. Sp., 704.. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 597. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 583. 



Synonymes. R. scandens Mill. Diet. No. 8. ; R. balearica Desf. Cat. Pers. Ench. 2. p. 49. ; R. 



atrovirens Viv. Fl. Ital. 4. t. 6. ; R. sempervlrens globdsa Red. Ros. 2., with a fig. ; R. semper- 



virens var. a, scandens Dec. Fl. Fr. 5. p. 533. 

 Engravings. Lawr. Ros., t. 45. ; Bot Reg., t. 459. ; and our fig. 619. 



Spec. Char., $c. Evergreen. Shoots climbing. 

 Prickles pretty equal, falcate. Leaves of 5 7 

 leaflets, that are green on both sides, coriaceous. 

 Flowers almost solitary, or in corymbs. Sepals 

 nearly entire, longish. Styles cohering into 

 an elongate pilose column. Fruit ovate or ovate 

 globose, orange-coloured. Peduncles mostly 

 hispid with glanded hairs. Closely allied to 

 R. arvensis, but differing in its being evergreen, 

 in its leaves being coriaceous ; and in its stipules 

 being subfalcate, and more acute at the tip. 

 (Dec. Prod.) A vigorous evergreen climber. 

 France, Portugal, Italy, at Paestum and other 

 places, Greece, and the Balearic Islands. Stem 

 20ft. to 40ft. Introduced in 1629. Flowers 

 white or pale rose-coloured ; June to August. 

 Fruit orange-coloured ; ripe in September. 



Varieties. Several varieties are enumerated in catalogues ; those which we 

 consider best worth mentioning are, 



619. R. sempervirer.*. 



