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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



. 67. R. LAWRENCE^A^ Swt. Miss Lawrence's China Rose. 



Identification. Sweet Hort. Suburb. ; Lindl. Ros., p. 110. ; Don's Mill. 2. 

 p. 582. 



Synonymes. R. semperflbrens minima Sims Bot. Mag., t. 1762. ; R. indica 

 var. a, acuminata Red. Ros., 1. p. 53. ; R. indica Lawrenceana Red. 

 Ros., 2. p. 38. 



Engravings. Red. Ros., 1. p. 53. ; and our fig. 509. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Dwarf. Prickles large, stout, [nearly straight. Leaflets 

 ovate acute, finely serrated. Petals acuminated. (Don's Mill., 1i. p. 582.) 

 Native of China. Flowers small, single or semidouble, pale blush. A 

 shrub, 1 ft. in height, which flowers throughout the year. The beautiful 

 little plants called fairy roses are nearly all varieties of R. Lawrenceown ; 

 and they are well worthy of culture, from their extreme dwarfness (often 

 flowering when not more than 6 in. high), and the beautiful colour of their 

 " hich appear of a much darker hue than 



miniature rose-buds, the petals of ' 

 those of the expanded flower. 



509 



ix. Systylce Lindl. 



Derivation. From sun, together, and stulos, a style ; in reference to the styles being connected. 



Sect. Char. Styles cohering together into an elongated column. Stipules 

 adnate. The habit of this section is nearly the same as that of the last 

 division. The leaves are frequently permanent. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 582.) 



J. jc 68. R. SY'STYLA Bat. The connate-styled Rose. 



Identification. Bat. Fl. Main, et Loir. 

 Si/nonymes. R. colllna Smith in En$ 



brevfstyla Dec. Fl. Fr. Suppl., p. 537. 



p. 111. 



Engraving. Eng. Bot, 1. 1895. 



Spec. Char., 8<c. Shoots assurgent. Prickles strong, hooked. 

 e, decid 



31. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 582. 



Desv. Journ. Bot., 2. p. u i( . , . 

 R. bibractea'ta Dec'., 1. c. ; R. s^styla a. ovata Lindl. Ros., 



., t. 1895. ; R. styl&sa Dew. Journ. Bot., 2. p. 317. ; R. 



Peduncles glandular. Sepals pin- 



nate, deciduous. Styles smooth. Floral receptacle conical. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 582.) Native of 

 France and England, in hedges and thickets ; common in Sussex ; at Walthamstow, Quendon, 



and Clapton, near London ; at Dunnington Castle, Berkshire; near Penshurst, Kent ; and Horn- 

 sey, Middlesex ; hills in the south of Scotland. Flowers fragrant, pink or almost white. Fruit 

 ovate-oblong. A shrub, growing to from 8 ft. to 12 ft. in height, and flowering from May to July 

 There are several varieties, but they do not differ materially in appearance from the species. 



j. -* 69. R. ARVE'NSIS Hud*. The Field Rose. 



Identification. Huds. FL Angl., ed. 1. p. 192., according to Lindl. Ros. Mon. ; Lin. Mant, p. 245. : 



Dec. Prod., 2. p. 596. 

 Synonymes. R. sylvestris Hem. Diss., p. 10. ; R. scandens Mcench Weiss. PL, p. 118. ; R. herpe- 



rhodon Ehrh Beitr., 2. p. 69. ; R. Halleri Krok. Siles, 2. p. 150. ; R. fusca Mcench Meth., p. 688. ; 



R. serpens Ehrh. Arbor., p. 35. ; R. sempervlrens Rossig. Ros. ; R. rfepens Gmel. Fl. Bad. Als., 2. 



p. 418., Jacq. Fragm., p. 69. t 104. ; R. rampans Reyn. Mem. Laus., 1. p. 69. t. 5. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t 188. ; Lawr. Ros., t. 86. ; Red. Ros., 1. t. 33. ; Sims Bot Mag., t. 2054. ; 



and our fig. 510. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Shoots cord-like. Prickles unequal and 

 falcate. Leaves deciduous, and composed of 5 7 gla- 

 brous, or indistinctly ciliated, leaflets, glaocescent beneath. 

 Stipules diverging at the tip. Flowers solitary or globose. 

 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., ii. p. 597.) In open situa- 

 tions, a trailing plant, sometimes rooting at the joints; 

 but, in hedges, and among bushes, a climber by elonga- 

 tion ; 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 win- 

 ter. The shoots are, in general, feeble, much divided, 



510 



and entangled; and they generally produce, here and there, rugged ex- 

 crescences, which readily take root. Hence, by budding the more rare sorts 

 on the shoots, a little above these excrescences, and, after the buds have 

 united, cutting off a portion of the shoot containing the excrescence at one 

 end, and the inoculated bud at the other, and putting in these portions as 

 cuttings, different varieties may be propagated with expedition and ease. 

 Varieties. Several varieties are enumerated and described in De Candolle's 

 Prodromus ; but the only ones which we think truly distinct, and of general 

 interest, are the following : 



