CLV. 



ROSA GALLICA. 



Red, French, or Provins Rose. 



Class, <SfC. See Dog Rose (Rosa Canina). 



Spec. Char. Prickles uniform, nearly equal, weak, 

 Leaflets stiff, elliptical. Flowers erect. Sepals ovate. 

 Fruit subglobose. 



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SYNONYMES. 



poboy. 

 r Rosa rubra multiplex. Bauh. Pin. 481. 



Rosa anglica rubra. Park. Par ad. 412. 



Rosa purpurea sanguinea. Lob. adv. 446. 

 I Rosa centifolia. Mill. Diet. No. 41. 

 j Rosa sylvatica. Gater Mont. p. 94. 

 I Rosa rubra. Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. p. 130. 

 I Rosa gallica. Lin. Sp. PI. 704. Jiedoutt Roses, 

 [ 73, t. 25 ; p. 135, t. 52 ; vol. ii. t. 7, 8, 10. 



Rose rouge ; Rose de Provins. 



Rosa domestica. 



Rosa rubra ; Rosa Castellana. 



Rosa vermalha. 



Essigrose ; Rothe Rose. 



Fransche Rosen. 



Edike Rose. 



Rcettikeroser. 



Rosa damascenskie. 



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Description. — The stems are branching, from three to four 

 feet high, armed with fine, dispersed, short, slightly hooked> 

 reddish prtekles. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, winged, 

 composed of five to seven stiff elliptical or somewhat ovate 

 leaflets, smooth, and of a deep green above, paler, glaucous or 

 whitish and downy beneath, glandular at the margin ; the 

 nerves and petioles are also glandular. The stipulae are linear- 

 lanceolate, pointed, downy, and glandular. The flowers are 



