1 60 Rosacece Rosa. 



This species, which has been in cultivation for a long period, 

 has like the preceding produced many varieties, in which, how- 

 ever, the specific type is pretty well preserved an indication, 

 perhaps, that it does not cross so readily as some others. It 

 should be noted, too, that in the majority the colour is either 

 white or of a pinkish tint, rarely bright rose. Those with a 

 decided shade of crimson probably owe this greater intensity of 

 colour to a cross between the White Eose and some other 

 species. Writers and horticulturists describe upwards of a 

 hundred varieties of this handsome Eose ; but we may limit 

 ourselves to the following : Pompon Bayard, Placidie, 

 Celeste blanche, Bouquet blanc Royale, Belle Aurore (flowers 

 white, tinged with yellow), Perle de France, Cuisse de Nymphe, 

 Diademe de Flore (flowers large and very double, flesh-coloured, 

 one of the most beautiful Eoses known) ; Felicite, Madame 

 Legras, La Seduisante, etc., are better known in this country. 



R. tomentosa, R. villosa, and R. Evratiana, belong to this 

 tribe, but they are seldom cultivated, and have produced no 

 noteworthy varieties. 1 



VII. Ebs^: EuBiGmbs^E,the Sweet Briar and Eglantine Eoses. 

 Very closely allied to the preceding tribe, from which they are 

 distinguished by their curved suckers, and especially by the 

 glandular under-surface of the leaves; a character almost 

 exclusively confined to Eoses of this section. They have the 

 same persistent calyx-lobes and thick disk closing the mouth 

 of the calyx-tube. There are only two species in this group 

 which merit our attention, they are : 



R. lutea, the Eglantine, which should not be confounded 

 with R. sulphurea, previously mentioned under the Burnet 

 Eose section. This, which appears to be a native of the 

 South of Europe, though it may be only naturalised, is a 

 bush 3 to 6 feet high with straight prickles not intermixed with 

 bristles, and shining dark-green leaves whose leaflets to the 

 number of 5 to 7 are oval, slightly concave and toothed, and 

 more or less pubescent and glandular beneath, and glabrous 

 above. The flowers are large, cup-shaped, sometimes wholly 

 yellow, sometimes yellow without and reddish brown within. 

 Their odour, which has sometimes been compared to that of a 

 bug, without being exactly disagreeable, but feebly recalls that of 



1 All the wild forms of this group are now usually considered as varieties of 

 It. canlna. 



