XXVI. ROSA‘CEE: RO'SA. 345 
Sepals almost entire, short. Styles cohering into an 
elongated glabrous column. Fruit ovate, or ovate-globose, 
coriaceous, crimson, glabrous, or a little hispid, as well as 
the peduncles. (Dec. Prod.) Trailing, or climbing, decidu- 
ous ; in some situations sub-evergreen. Europe, in many 
places; in England, in hedges and thickets and the 
borders of fields, chiefly in the midland counties. Stems 
20 ft. to 40 ft. Flowers white; July. Fruit dark blood- 
coloured; ripe in September. 
Varieties. Several varieties are enumerated in catalogues ; 
the following appear distinct, and of general interest : — 
R+ a2 R. a. 2 ayreshirea Ser. R. capreolata gig. x, arvensis. 
Neill in Edin. Phil. Journ. No.3. p. 102.— 
Sub-evergreen. Prickles slender, very acute. Leaflets ovate, 
sharply serrated, thin, nearly of the same colour on both surfaces. 
Peduncles hispid with glanded hairs, or wrinkled. A vigorous- 
growing climber, producing shoots sometimes 20 ft. in length in 
one season, and flowering profusely from the middle of May to the 
middle of September. One of the hardiest of climbing roses, and 
particularly useful for covering naked walls, or unsightly roofs. Cul- 
tivated in British gardens under the name of the Ayrshire Rose. 
3 x R. a. 3 hybrida Lindl. Ros. 113. has semidouble flowers, of a most 
delicate flesh colour, and is called, in the nurseries, the double hip 
rose ; the term hip rose being applied by gardeners to the com- 
monest wild roses. 
In open situations, a trailing plant, sometimes rooting at the joints; but, 
in hedges’ and among bushes, a climber by elongation ; reaching to their tops, 
and covering them with tufts of foliage and flowers ; the leaves remaining on 
late in the season ; and the fruit often remaining on all the winter. The 
shoots are, in general, feeble, much divided, and entangled ; and they gene- 
rally produce, here and there, rugged excrescences, which readily take root. 
B. Species Natives of Middle Europe. 
& 2 55. R.(a.) semPERVERENS Lin. The evergreen (Field) Rose. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 704.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 597.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 583. 
‘Synonymes. H. scandens Mill. Dict. No. 8.; HR. baleérica Desf. Cat. Pers. Ench. 2. p. 49.3 R. 
atrovirens Viv. Fl. ital. 4. t.6.; R. sempervirens globdsa Hed. Ros. 2., with a fig.; 2. semper- 
virens var. « scandens Dec. Fl. Fr. 5. p. 533. 
Engravings. Lawr. Ros., t. 45.; Bot. Reg., t. 459. ; and our fig. 619. 
Spec. Char., §c. Evergreen. Shoots climbing. 
Prickles pretty equal, falcate. Leaves of 5—7 
leaflets, that are green on both sides, coriaceous. 
Flowers almost solitary, or in corymbs. Sepals 
nearly entire, longish. Styles cohering into 
an elongate pilose column. Fruit ovate or ovate 
globose, orange-coloured. Peduncles mostly 
hispid with glanded hairs. Closely allied to 
R. arvénsis, but differing in its being evergreen, 
in its leaves being coriaceous; and in its stipules 
being subfalcate, and more acute at the tip. 
(Dec. Prod.) A vigorous evergreen climber. 
France, Portugal, Italy, at Pastum and other 
places, Greece, and the Balearic Islands. Stem 
20 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced in 1629. Flowers 
white or pale rose-coloured ; June to August. 
Fruit orange-coloured ; ripe in September. 
619. RB. sempecyvrce & 
Varieties. Several varieties are enumerated in catalogues ; those which we 
consider best worth mentioning are, — 
