168 Rosacea—Rosa. 
Seedling, or Thoresbyana, a very profuse small-flowered 
double white variety. 
R. sempervirens, the Evergreen Rose, a native of the Medi- 
terranean region both in Europe and Africa. This is a 
climbing shrub with long slender branches armed with hooked 
prickles. Leaves shining, glabrous, composed of 5 to 7 ovate- 
lanceolate leaflets, persistent even in Winter. Flowers medium 
size, numerous, clustered, 
white, sweet-scented ;_ styles 
coherent, forming a long hairy 
column. The orange-coloured 
fruit is small and round. 
This has been under culti- 
vation a long time, and has 
produced several esteemed ° 
varieties, valuable for the same 
purposes as those of the pre- 
. ceding species. We may men- 
tion as among the best, Donna 
Maria, pure white, medium 
size, and double; Princesse 
Marie, bright rose, double, 
and cupped. 
R. multiflora, the Many- 
flowered Rose (fig. 92), comes from China and Japan. A 
climbing shrub with slender flexible elongated branches armed 
with hooked prickles arranged in pairs below the insertion of the 
leaves. The latter are composed of about seven leaflets which 
are hairy on both sides, ovul or lanceolate, and more or less 
acute. Flowers in dense clusters, small, very double, bright 
rose. The column of styles is slightly hairy. The calyx- 
leaves drop shortly before the turbinute bright red fruits 
become ripe. 
This Rose is remarkable for the smallness of its white or rose 
flowers, which scarcely surpass those of the double cultivated 
Bramble. The wild type, very probably single, is unknown to 
us, and as the double variety (the only one we have from the 
extreme East) is usually sterile, no hybrid variety, of course, 
has been reported to which this has given birth; but there are 
several sub-varieties, which have been perpetuated by grafting. 
We append the names of the best: Rose de lu Grifferaie, 
Myltiflore du Lucembourg, and Laure Davoust, 
Fig. 92. Rosa multiflura. (4 nat. size.) 
