160 Rosacee—fosta. 
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 Rose and some other 
species. Writers and horticulturists describe upwards of a 
hundred varieties of this handsome Rose; but we may limit 
ourselves to the following:—Pompon Bayard, Placicdie, 
Céleste blanche, Bouquet blane Royale, Belle Aurore (flowers 
white, tinged with yellow), Perle de France, Cuisse de Nymphe, 
Diudime de Flore (flowers large and very double, flesh-coloured, 
one of the most beautiful Roses known); Félicité, Madame 
Legras, La Séduisante, ete., 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.! 
VII. Ross Rusicinos.£, the Sweet Driar and Eglantine Roses.— 
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 Roses 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. sulphirea, previously mentioned under the Burnet 
Rose 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 gronp are now usually considered as varieties of 
BR. canna. 
