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N. Ord. ROSACES. 

 Tribe Rosees. 

 Genus Rosa. 



104. Rosagallica, Linn., Sp. Plant,, ed. I, p. 492 (1753). 

 French Rose. Provins Rose. Red Rose. 



Syn. R. pumila, Linn. f. R. anstriaca, Crantz. R. cuprea, Jacq. 



Figures. Woodville, t. 179 (double fls/); Hayne, xi, t. 30; Steph. and 

 Ch., t. 99 (double fls.) ; Jacq., Fl. Austr., t. 198. 



Description. A small rather compact erect bush, with nume- 

 rous stems from a creeping rootstock and short stiff branches, 

 the young shoots armed with short nearly equal straight prickles 

 mixed with glandular seise, but without any large hooked 

 prickles. Leaves alternate, stalked, with rather large acute- 

 pointed stipules adherent to the petiole, pinnate, with two pairs 

 of opposite leaflets and a terminal one, leaflets shortly stalked or 

 nearly sessile, oval or ovate, rounded at the base, acute at the 

 apex, serrate, stiff, almost coriaceous, keeled, rugose with veins, 

 pale and slightly pilose below, the leaf-serratures not edged with 

 glands. Flowers large on long, setose, thick, upright, terminal 

 and axillary stalks, with 2 or 3 more or less leafy bracts. Calyx 

 with a fleshy dilated urn-shaped tube contracted at its mouth, and 

 5 spreading ovate acute imbricate divisions, with small leafy 

 pinnae on the outside margins, glandular-hairy externally, smooth 

 within. Petals 5 (in the wild state), alternate with the seg- 

 ments of the calyx, broadly triangular-rounded, with a small claw, 

 imbricate, spreading, veined, usually dark rich pink with claw 

 pale. Stamens very numerous, inserted in several rows on the 

 fleshy " disk " which lines the throat of the calyx, anthers short, 

 flattened, 2-celled. Carpels numerous, inserted on the base and 

 sides of the calyx-tube, ovaries with a single pendulous ovule, 

 styles lateral, thickened upwards, projecting out of the mouth of 

 the calyx-tube. Fruit composed of numerous 1 -seeded indehi- 

 scent achenes inclosed in the swollen and fleshy calyx-tube which 



