158 ROSE FAMILY. 



R. moschafa, Mill. Mlscat 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 projectiiif/, nor united. 



-1- Tender^ tall-climbing, and xoholly destitute of prickles. 



R. Bdnksice, K. Br. Banksia Bosk, from China. A slender conser- 

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

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



■t- -t- Tender, armed only loitli distant hooked pricklef:, imth leaves of 

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



R. Indica, Linn. India or China Roses. Includes the Tea, I'erpetfai. 

 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. 



M- +- -t- Hardy or mainly so at the north, not climbing, more or less prickly, 

 and with leaves of 5 or more leaflets. 



R. alplna, 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 oboviile 

 fruit. The Bol-rsalt 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. Gallica, Linn. French or Reo Hose. Has slender stems beset 

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

 I'igid doubly and glandular-toothed leaflets more or less downy beneath, 

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

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

 conserve of mses, and a globose fruit. 



R. centifolia, 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 Hoses are abnormal states (var. mcsc6sa) 

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

 moss-like substance. Petals used for rose-icater, 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 pinnatiiid or lobed) reflexed 

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

 etc.; used in preference for «War-o/-rose.s and rose-water. Hybrid Per- 

 petual Hoses are largely derived from this through hybridization with 

 forms of R. Indica and others. 



R. alba, LiniL White liosE. Leaflets 5, glaucous and a little downy 

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

 petals i)ure white or delicate blush, fragrant ; fruit oblong and red. 



R. cinnambmea, Linn. Cinnamon Rose, of Eu. Met with in country 

 gardens; is related to our wild R. l)landa ; 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 



