l^S ROSE FAMILY. 



R. moscbata. Mill. Muscat or Musk Rose. Not climbing, with slender 

 curved prickles ; leaves of 5 or 7 lanceolate and pointed leaflets, a 

 corymb of white flowers, with a yellowish base to the petals, very sweet 

 scented, especially at evening. 



* * Styles not sensibly projecting, nor united. 



■*- Tender, tall-climbing, and icholly destitute of prickles. 



R. Bdnksioe, R. Br. Banksia Rose, from China. A slender conser- 

 vatory species (in the N.), very smooth, with 3-5-lanceolate glossy leaflets, 

 and umbels of very small, white or buff and violet- scented flowers. 



■t- -t- Tender, armed only with distant hooked prickles, with leaves of 

 mostly 3 (3-5) rather coriaceous and shining leaflets. 



R. Indica, Linn. India or China Roses. Includes the Tea, Perpetual 

 or Bengal, Bourbon, and Noisette Roses ; and the Bengal Pompons, 

 etc., are miniature forms of similar origin. A plant of upright habit, 

 smooth, the peduncle thickened upwards, calyx either smooth or bristly. 

 Long grown and very variable. 



•♦-+-••- Hardy or mainly so at the north, not climbing, more or less prickly, 

 and icith leaves of 5 or more leaflets. 



R. alp)na, Linn. Alpine Rose, of Eu. Grows 5°-8° high, unarmed 

 or with a few purplish spines, hispid peduncles, erect and solitary 

 blush flowers, and a more or less pendulous, orange-red, oblong or obovate 

 fruit. The Boursalt Roses are derived from this, probably crossed with 

 the China Rose, and are mostly smooth-stemmed plants of somewhat 

 climbing habit and large double flowers. 



R. Gdllica, Linn. French or Red Rose. Has slender stems beset 

 with both stout curved and slender straight prickles ; leaves of 5-7 rather 

 rigid doubly and glandular-toothed leaflets more or leas downy beneath, 

 erect 1 -flowered peduncles, and pink- red or crimson (or variegated with 

 white), spreading petals which have some astringency and are used for 

 conserve of roses, and a globose fruit. 



R. centifdiia, Linn. Hundred-Leaved, Provence, or Cabbage Rose. 

 Has mostly straight prickles, 5-7 oval leaflets with glandular teeth or 

 edges, peduncle and calyx clammy, with odorous glands, the hip bristly 

 and glandular ; the flowers mostly nodding, large, and full-double, rose- 

 purple, or of various shades, rarely white ; fruit oblong. Pompon Roses 

 are miniature varieties. Moss Roses are abnormal states (var. musc6sa) 

 with the glands and bristles of the calyx and peduncle developed into a 

 moss-like substance. Petals used for rose-water, essence of roses, etc. 



R. Damascena, Mill. Damask Rose. Known from the foregoing by 

 the greener bark, larger curved prickles, corymbed flowers oblong in the 

 bud, and with the long sepals (some of them pinnatifid or lobed) reflexed 

 during flowering, the hip oblong and pulpy ; petals rose-purple, white, 

 etc. ; used in preference for attar-of-roses and rose-water. Hybrid Per- 

 petual Roses are largely derived from this through hybridization with 

 forms of R. Indica and others. 



R. diba, Linn. White Rose. Leaflets 5, glaucous and a little downy 

 beneath ; prickles straightish and slender ; sepals reflexed and lobed ; 

 petals pure white or delicate blush, fragrant ; fruit oblong and red. 



R. cinnamdmea, Linn. Cinnamon Rose, of Eu. Met with in countiy 

 gardens ; is related to our wild R. blanda ; 5° to 8° high, with brownish- 

 red bark, and some straightish prickles ; pale leaves downy underneath, 

 and small, pale-red, cinnamon-scented (mostly double) flowers, not showy ; 

 fruit roundish, red. 



R. spinosissima, Linn. Burnet or Scotch Rose, of Eu. Low, 1° or 

 2° high, exceedingly prickly with straight prickles, with 7 to 9 small and 



