152 Rosacee— Rosa. 
lets. The flowers are solitary, very double, rose or pale 
carmine. The calyx is densely covered all over with fine 
thorns, a character wanting in the other species of the group, 
and perhaps sufficient to separate this from it as a distinct 
tribe. This pretty Rose is indigenous in China and the moun- 
tains of Northern India, whence it was brought to England 
towards the end of the last century. Two or three varieties 
not uncommon in gardens are referred to this species: the 
Old Purple, a very double deep carmine Rose ; and Triomphe 
de Macheteaux, a very double white variety tinged with rose. 
Another species attached to this group is the Rosa clinophylla, 
from which, hybridised with R. berberidifolia, came Hardy’s 
Rose, a variety with yellow flowers spotted with purple at 
the base of the petals, but this has become very rare 
now. 
The Roses of this group require slight protection in severe 
weather, and are well suited for covering dwarf walls. 
III. Ross Cryyauosua#, or Cinnamon Roses.—Shrubs or 
bushes variable in height, natives of Europe, Western Asia, and 
North America. The leaflets are usually long and lanceolate, 
especially in the American species; the flowers are of medium 
size, rosy carmine, and generally produced in clusters, though 
rarely solitary. The almost spherical fruits ordinarily lose the 
calyx-leaves on arriving at maturity. 
RK. cinnamomea, Cinnamon Rose, a European shrub, chiefly 
iuhabiting the mountainous regions of the South, where it attains 
a height of 9 or 10 feet or more, with a stem occasionally 
thicker than the arm. The almost straight spines occur in pairs 
a little below the insertion of the petioles ; the leaves are mostly 
composed of 5 oblong leaflets of a greyish green abuye and glau- 
cous beneath; and the hlac or very pale carmine flowers are 
either solitary or two or three tugcther on the same peduncle. 
This Rose, which has been in cultivation a long time, has 
given birth to several varieties, single and double, amongst 
which we may notice the Rose dw Suint-Saecrement, still 
to be seen in some gardens. 
R. muiilis, May Rose, is asmall bush about 3 feet high, from 
the North of Europe, with weak spines scattered or united 
in pairs on a level with the insertion of the petioles. The 
leaves have usually 7 leaflets, ovate or obovate, and slightly 
glaucous. Flowers small, solitary, pale rose; fruit spherical, 
orange-coloured, not losing the calys-leaves on arriving at 
