usually more than an inch in length, thin, smooth, doubly or sharply 
serrated, paler beneath, with some hairs now and then on the midrib. 
FLowers generally solitary, of a rich and elegant rose-colour, on 
drooping red stalks, clothed with glandular bristles. Catyx downy, 
with long, simple, slender, rather leaf-pointed segments ; tube generally 
smooth, but occasionally with bristles; segments with a few bristles. 
Perats obcordate, two-lobed. Frorr pendulous, crowned with the 
connivent segments of the calyx, of a rich deep red colour. 
Poputar and GrocrapnicaL Notice. The species of the genus 
Rosa having been so long the objects of admiration and cultivation, by 
mankind in almost all countries, have undergone such modifications _ 
from variety of soil, climate, and possibly also from hybridization, that 
it is extremely difficult to determine what are genuine species, what 
artificial or accidental dire and to fix the cidade! prot Those 
synonymes of th t f which we feel perfectly satis fied, we shall, 
as usual, append to the last page, leaving the determination of others 
to those who may choose to submit them to a more extended examina- 
tion. This plant is unquestionably the Rosa non spinosa of Haller, 
Opuscula 218; and the Rosa inermis, foliis septenis glabris, calycis 
segmentis indivisis of his Historia Plantarum Helvetie, Vol. II, p. 42, 
n. 1107; and the fruit, as we have ascertained by comparison, agrees 
with that represented in Madame Merian’s Insecten Europa’s, to which 
he refers. It is likewise the true Rosa alpina of Linneus’s Species 
Plantarum, Edit. 2, p. 703; and "of Smith, in Rees’ s Cyclopedia, 
under that name. 
The powers of language, both in poetry and prose, have been ex- 
hausted in vain attempts to do justice to the charms and beauty of the 
rose, which, without disparagement to other flowers, may be truly 
styled “ most perfect.” The ancients, by dedicating it to Venus, the 
goddess of beauty, intimated its fitness to be the type of the “ro eaXov,” 
or “the beautiful ;” and her votaries, on her annual festival, 
——— “ with rapturous peal, 
Adored the queen, and in their songs proclaimed 
The rose, the ensign of her conquering power.” 
Poets— 
———— “for bards have ever loved 
The | queen of flowers, the flower of beauty’s queen ;’ 
have vied with each other to produce the most acceptable tributary 
strain, from the multitude of which it is difficult to select the best; but 
