232 BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



Spec. Char., <^c. Shoots cord-like. Prickles unequal and falcate. Leaves 

 deciduous, and composed of 5 — 7 glabrous, or indistinctly ciliated, leaflets, glau- 

 cescent 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. 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 re- 

 maining 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 gener- 

 ally produce, here and there, rugged excrescences, 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 ofl" 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, difierent varieties may be propagated with expedition and 

 ease. 



R. a. 2 ayresh'irea Ser. R. capreolata Neill in Edin. Phil. Journ., No. 3, p. 

 102. Cultivated in British gardens under the name of the Ayrshire Rose. 

 Prickles slender, very acute. Leaflets ovate, sharply serrate, thin, nearly of the 

 same color on both surfaces. Peduncles hispid with glanded hairs, or wrinkled. 

 A vigorous-growing climber, producing shoots sometimes 20 ft. in length in one 

 season, and flowering profusely from the middle of May to the middle of Septem- 

 ber. One of the hardiest of climbing roses, and particularly useful for covering 

 naked walls, or unsightly roofs. It is supposed by some to be of American origin, 

 and to have been introduced into Ayrshire by the Earl of Loudon. 



70. 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. Did., No. 8 ; R. balearica Desf. Cat. Pers. Ench., 

 2,*p. 49; R. atrovirens Viv. PL ItaL, 4, t. 6; R. sempervirens globosa Red. Ros., 2, 

 with a fig. ; R. sempervirens var. a seandens Dec. PL Pr., 5, p. 533. 



Spec. Char., d^-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-colored. Pedun- 

 cles mostly hispid with glanded hairs. Closely allied to R. arvensis, but differ- 

 ing in its being evergreen, in its leaves being coriaceous, and in its stipules being 

 subfelcate, and more acute at the tip. Native of France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, 

 and the Balearic Islands. A climbing shrub, flowering trom June to August. 

 Used for the same purposes as the Ayrshire rose ; from which it dilTers in retain- 

 ing its leaves the greater part of the winter, and in its less vigorous shoots. This 

 species is well adapted tor rose carpels made by pegging down its long flexile 

 shoots. Itglossy, rich foliage forms, in this way, abeautiiul carpet of verdure en- 

 ameled with flowers. 



71. R. MULTiFLo^RA T%u7ib. The many-flowered Rose. 

 Identification. Thunb. Fl. Jap., 214 ; Dec. Prod., 2, p. 598 ; Don's Mill., 2, p. 583. 

 Synonyme. R. flava Donn. Hort. Cant, ed. 4, p. 121 ; R. florida Pair. SuppL; R. 

 diffusa Roxb. 



Spec. Char., i^'C. Branches, peduncles, and calyxes tomentose. Shoots very 

 long. Prickles slender, .scattered. Leaflets 5 — 7, ovate-lanceolate soft, finely 

 wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flowers in corymbs, and, in many instances, 

 very numerous. Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. Styles protruded, incom- 

 pletely grown together into a long hairy column. A climbing shrub, a native of 

 Japan and China; and producing a profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 

 double, or double, white, pale red, or red flowers in June and July. It is one of 

 the most ornamental of climbing roses; but, to succeed, even in the climate of 

 London, it requires a wall. The flowers continue to expand one after another 

 during nearly two months. 



R. m. 2 GreviUci Hort. R. Roxbiirghii Hort. ; R. platyphy'lla Red. Ros., p. 69. 

 The Seven Sisters Rose. A beautiful variety of this sort, with much larger and 



