VI. EOSACEiE. 



I. ROSE SERIES. 



The Roses'(Fr.,7?o.wr5— figs. 373-378) have regular hermaphrodite 

 flowers. The floral peduncle is dilated at its summit, as in most Moni- 



Mosa pimpinellifolia (Burnet Rose). 



Fig. 373. 

 Flower. 



miacece, into a hollow receptacle, swollen and globular, or more or less 

 elongated, like a purse or gourd On the edges of the narrow opening- 

 representing the organic base of the receptacle are inserted the perianth 



1 Rosa T., Inst., 636, t. 408.— L. Gen., n.(131. 

 — Adans., Tarn, des PI., ii. 294.— J., Gen., 335, 

 452.— Lamk., Die^., vi. 275; Suppl., iv. 708; 

 III., t. 440.— DC, Prodr., ii. 597.— Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, ii. 8. — Endl., Gen., n. C357. — 

 B. H., Gen., 625, n, 60. 



^ Generally this is more dilated than the short 

 neck just below, where the receptacle is most 



contracted. It is the receptacular ponch which, 

 in many descriptions, very few of which are 

 recent, is considered as the lower coherent part 

 of the calyx. Its outer surface may he tjlabrous 

 or covered with hairs, or even prickles ; sonic- 

 times, by accident, it bears one or several bracts, 

 which demonstrate its axial nature. Tiiis is 

 also confirmed by the numerous examples of 



