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IV. Rosa Centifolia, Hundred-leaved, or 



Cabbage Rose. 

 Rosa Polyanthos. 

 Rosa Caryophyllea. 

 Rosa Unguiculata. 

 Rosa Varians. 



Shrub y forming a high bush with divergent branches. 

 Thorns, unequal, and scattered on the branches ; the 



largest falcate, mingled with bristles and glands ; 



those of the branchlets, thornless. 

 Leaves, distant and not numerous. 

 Lea/lets, five or seven; oblong, sharply and doubly 



toothed; smooth on the upper surface, pubescent 



underneath. 



Leafstalks, thorny, glandulous. 

 Flowerstalks, long, bearing pedicellated glands. 

 Tube of calyx, glandulous, oval, oblong or fusiform; 



rarely turbinated. 

 Sepals, having fragrant viscous glands, terminating in 



a point ; three of them furnished on the sides with 



very long divergent appendages. 

 Buds, conical. 

 Flowers, either drooping or erect, fragrant; of a pure 



pink; regular, very full, sometimes solitary, more 



commonly in clusters of from two to five. 

 Fruit, red, oval. 



This variety, one of the most ancient recorded, unites 

 brilliancy of colour with regularity of form and a deli- 

 cious fragrance ; and is consequently styled, in general 

 acceptation, the Queen of the Flower-garden. 



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