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The Chinese R. anemonceflora might be placed next, as it 

 resembles the foregoing in habit, but still it is better located 

 in the following section. 



R. moschata, the Musk Eose, originally from Northern 

 Africa, but now naturalised in Spain and about Eoussillon. 

 An erect much branched free-flowering shrub from 5 to 10 

 feet high, armed with hooked almost equal spines. Leaves of 

 5 to 7 ovate-lanceolate dentate leaflets, smooth and dull green 

 above, glaucous below, with the midrib hairy. The flowers are 

 generally in clusters of about seven, white, and very fragrant. 

 Calyx-leaves deciduous, dropping soon after the fall of the 

 petals. The fruit is small, obovoid, and red when ripe. This 

 Eose has been cultivated from time immemorial in the countries 

 bordering the Mediterranean Sea inhabited by Mussulman 

 tribes, where it furnishes the bulk of the essence of Eoses em- 

 ployed in the local perfumery. In our gardens it blooms late 

 (August or September), and it has produced several semi-double 

 varieties ; among others .the old Double Musk Eose, pure 

 white ; and Comtesse de Plater, white tinged with yellow. It 

 is also supposed to have contributed pollen towards the pro- 

 duction of some other hybrids, the Noisette for example, which 

 we have already alluded to. 



R. setigera, syn. R. rubifolia, the progenitor of the Prairie 

 Eoses of English gardens, from North America. This should 

 not to be confounded with R. multiflora. A shrub 3 to 

 5 feet high, easily recognised by its short prickles, leaves of 

 3 to 5 ovate acute dentate leaflets, and its solitary or slightly 

 clustered pale rose flowers about the size of those of the common 

 Bramble. The fruit is globular, about the size of a pea, 

 smooth and glabrous. This very distinct species differs notably 

 in habit from all others of this section, but on account of the 

 confluence of its styles it cannot be removed from them in a 

 classification. It has given birth to some garden varieties not 

 without interest, such as Queen of the Prairies, Belle de Balti- 

 more, Miss Edgeworth, Purpurea, Seraphine, Washington's 

 Bride, etc., mostly semi-double or double, some white or flesh, 

 and others bright rose. 



X. EOS.E BANKSIAN^E, or Banksian Eoses. Usually climbing- 

 shrubs whose leaves have mostly no more than 3 to 5 leaflets. 

 Their principal botanical character is in the stipules, which are 

 almost free, narrow, acute, and nearly always deciduous. The 

 styles are sometimes free and sometimes united. The species 



