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agreeable odour is lefs. We have, under the article Eglax- 

 teria, given the hillory of Linnxus's miltake, in con- 

 founding the prefent fpecies, firfl with the Common Sweet- 

 briar, and then with the Double Oriental "Vcllow Rofe, 

 (fee hereafter R.fulphurca and R. rublginofa) \ as well as 

 our reafons for following the Hort. Kew., Willdenow, &c. 

 in thele names. Thefruh of R. lutca has never been feen or 

 heard of by us, in a Rate ot maturity. 



3. R. fulpburta. Double Yellow Rofe. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 1. 11. 2. ed. 2. n. 3. Willd. n. 3. Lawr. Roi. 

 t. 77. (R. glaucophylla; Ehrh. Beitr. v. 2. 69. R. he- 

 mifphxrica ; Herm. Rot. \%. R. lutea multiplex; Gcr. 

 Em. 1267. Hort. Angl. 66. t. 18. R. lutea maxima, 

 (lore pleno ; Hort. Eylt. vern. ord. 6. t. 2. f. 4. R. flava, 

 pleno flore ; Cluf. Cur. Poll. 6.) — Fruit globofe, fomewhat 

 prickly. Flower-ltalks fmooth. Stem with two fets of 

 copious (traight prickles. Stipulas jagged. Leaflets obo- 

 vate, limply ferrated, glaucous, fmooth. This fine and 

 fingular fpecies, llrangely confounded, by many botanifts, 

 with the lalt, was received by Cluiius from the Levant, but 

 its native country is not precilely known. It has been culti- 

 vated in England for near 200 years, and is perfectly hardy 

 as to cold, but very impatient of low, confined, or fmoky 

 fituations ; nor does it, in the molt favourable,-often expand 

 its copious and truly glorious flowers to advantage. We 

 have feen them in the greateft perfection, on a poor gravelly- 

 foil, expofed to eaft winds, about outhoufes and hovels, 

 where no care was taken of the plant. The bufli is larger 

 than R. lutea, and evidently diitinguifhable by the pale 

 glaucous hue of its lmooth inodorous leaves. The prickles 

 of the Jlem are of two kinds ; fome twice as large as the 

 others. Flowers large and very double, without Icent, of 

 a rich but delicate golden yellow ; their inner petals, when 

 perfedt, fo profufely and elegantly crumpled, and fo brightly 

 tranfparent, that neither the ftrudure, nor the colour, of 

 any other rofe, can give the flighteft idea of their beauty ; 

 much lefs has any arliit, except perhaps Van Huyfum, in 

 one or two of his fined pi&ures, done this flower tolerable 

 juitice. The foliage in Mifs Lawrance a plate is much too 

 dark, and wants the glaucous pale afpedt which characterizes 

 the fpecies. The flower is well drawn in the old Hortus 

 Eyltctenlis. 



4. R. Bankfttt. Lady Banks's Rofe. Ait. n. 4. — 

 " Smooth, naked, and without prickles. Fruit globofe. 

 Leaves ternate or pinnate, (billing. Stipulas fetaceous, 

 diftincL" — Native of China, from whence it is faid to have 

 been brought, by Mr. W. Kerr, in 1807. It is marked, 

 by Mr Alton, as a ereen-houie Jbrub, bloiloming in June 

 and July. We have feen neither fpecimen nor figure. 



5. R. blanda. Labrador, or Hudfon's bay, Rofe. Ait. 



Hort. Kew. id. 1. u. 3. ed. 2. 11.5. Willd. 11.4. Purfli 

 n. I. Lawr. Rof. t. i~. — Fruit globofe, lmooth. Adult 

 Items, like the flower-ltalks, quite fmooth, and without 

 pricklis. — Native "I the molt northern parts ot America, 

 on the call, as well as well, eoalts, flowering there, as in 

 our gardens, from M iy to Auguit. Mr. Gordon is known 

 to have cultivated it in 1773, but the fpecies has not excited 

 general notice. The young branches, and their itaj'-flalis, 

 bi ar copious, Uraight, red prickles, but they afterwards 

 become lmooth, naked, red and fhiuing. The leaflets are 

 ufually I' veil, oblong, or obovate, large, varying in breadth. 

 Stipulas broad and long, with glandular lpreading points. 

 Flowers folitary, moderately large, crimlon. Tube of t he 

 calyx (hort, and alum It heinilpherical ; iegnient 1 long and 

 limplc, tapering gradually to a point. 



6. R. cinnamomea. Cinnamon Rofe. Linn, Sp. PI. 703. 

 Willd. n. 5. Ait. n. 6. Engl. Bot. t. 2388. Ger. Em. 



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1268. Lawr. Rof. t. 34. (R. fluvialis ; Fl. Dan. t. 868. 

 Ret/.. Scandin. ed. 2. 120. R. majahs ; Herm. Rof. 8. 

 Roller printanier; Reynier Mem. de la Suifle, v. 1. 222. 1 

 . R. collincola; Ehrh. Beitr. v. 2.70. Arb. 25. 

 Fruit globofe, fmooth as well as the flower-ltalks. Stem 

 with occafionaL fmall, twin prickles, below the ftipulas. 

 Foot il alks fcareely prickly. Leaflets oblong, finely downy, 

 glaucous beneath. — Native of Germany, Switzerland, 

 den, and Denmark ; lirit obferved wild in England by 

 Mr. Saliibury, in the wood in Aketon palture, near Ponte- 

 fiaet, Yorklhire. In gardens the double variety is common. 

 This is one of our earned Rofes, flowering in May. The 

 bufh is rather tall, with brown or reddiih twigs, (liining and 

 fmooth, except the fmall, and not univcrfal, twin prickles, 

 under eachjlipula. The leaves have a dull glaucous afpeft, 

 and are utually elliptic-oblong, unequally ferrated ; in 

 /?, Ehrhart's collincola, which our friend Dr. Afzelius is in- 

 clined to make a diltinct fpecies, they are broader and more 

 obtufe, but we can find no permanent fpecific mark- Stil! 

 lels can we diitinguifh, even as a variety, \\\e Jluvialis of Fl. 

 Dan. 'Yhx J?a<vucrs are of a delicate purpliih blufh-colour, 

 at lealt fuch are the double ones, feen in gardens ; in which 

 we could never detect any of the cinnamon (cent, mentioned 

 by Bauhin, to jultify the name. The fruit of the wild kind 

 is fmall, globofe, fcarlet. Segments of the calyx fimple, 

 long, and (lender, for the molt part (lightly fpatulate at the 

 end, but not invariably lo. The bulh, when young, is 

 fometimes very prickly. 



7. R. kamtfchatka. Kamtfchatka Rofe. Venten. Hort. 

 Cels. t. 67, not 68. Ait. 11. 7. — Fruit globofe, fmooth as 

 well as the flower-ltalks. Stem downy, very prickly. Leaf- 

 ltalks fomewhat prickly. Leaflets obovate, abrupt. — 

 Native of Kamtfchatka. — Sent to Kew by M. Cels, from 

 his garden at Paris, in 1 802 ; but it was, long before, cul- 

 tivated in Chelfea garden, from whence we received a fpe- 

 cimen in 1791. Every part is larger than the preceding. 

 The Jlem is downy, and armed with numerous, fcattered, 

 Uraight, pale, (lender prickles ; fome of which are alfo found 

 on the leaf-ltalks. Leaflets utually feven, of a pale glaocour. 

 green, veiny and rugged ; fomewhat downy beneath ; 

 coarfely ferrated, abrupt and emarginate. Stipulas obovate, 

 dilated, obtufe, veiny and downy. Flowers folitary, pur- 

 plifli rofe -coloured, fragrant. Segments of the calyx fimple, 

 entire, fpatulate at the ends. Fruit fmall, globofe, red. 

 Perhaps this fpecies ought to have been introduced between 

 blanda and cinnamomea, 



8. W.arvenjis. White Dog Rofe. Hudf. Angl. ed. 1. 192. 

 Linn. Mant. 2. 245. Willd. 11. 6. Ait. 11. 8. Fl. Brit. 11. 2. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 188. Lawr. Rof. t. 86. ( R. fylveltris ; 

 Herm. Rof. 10. R. Herporhodon ; Ehrh. Beitr. v. 2. 71. 

 R. ferpens ; Ehrh. Arb. 35. R. fylveltris folio glabro, 

 flore plane albo ; Bauh. Hilt. v. 2. 44.) — Fruit nearly glo- 

 bofe, fmooth. Flower-ltalks glandular, fomewhat cymofe. 

 Prickles of the (tern and leaf-ltalks hooked. Styles elon- 

 gated, combined. — Native of England, Germany, and Swit- 

 zerland. It often decorates, in profulion, the hedges and 

 thickets of the gravelly counties of England, flowering in 

 June and July, when its long, trailing, purplifli-brown twigs, 

 and copious milk-white blofloms, are highly ornamental. 

 We believe this fpecies is unknown in Sweden and Den- 

 mark ; lor the t. 398 of Fl. Dan. cited by LinnsUB, whom 

 Willdenow like 1 1 iidlon CI pie , i moll > vulently, a:, it calls 

 itfelf, Jl'inofiflima. There i, a glaucous hue on the voung 

 /boots, as well as on the back^ oj the l:,ifl.;>, which are moftly 

 live, oval, pointed, fmooth, with 111. up in. equal lerratures. 



Stipulas linear, pointed. Flovjer-Jlalk) rough with glandular 



bnltles, not prickly. Bafe ol thi tlyx lmooth and ovate, 



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