ROSA. 



litary, or two or three together, enveloped in the uppermoft 

 Jlipulas. Petals fmall, generally white, fometimes red. 

 Segments of the calyx, brittly and glandular at the back, 

 partly pinnate. Fruit red, armed with many ttrong briitles. 

 This fpecies has but a remote affinity to either canina or 

 arvenjis, with which Villars contrails it, except that the 

 Jlyles are faid to be elongated, after flowering, as in the 

 latter. 



50. R. muhijlara. Bramble-flowered Chinefe Rofe. 

 Thunb. .lap. 214. Willd. n. 30. Ait. n. 29. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1059. (" R. flava ; Donn. Cant. cd. 4. 131.") 



Fruit ovate, villous, unarmed. Flower [talks villous, 



racemofe. Stem and leaf-ltalks prickly. Leaflets ovate, 

 limply ferrated ; downy beneath. — Native of Japan and 

 China. Introduced into this country by Thomas Evans, efq. 

 of Stepney, about the year 1804. It is hardy, flowering in 

 June and July, and a great acquifition to the gardens, being 

 zjhrub of luxuriant growth, cafily trained to a confiderable 

 height. The leaves are of a greyifh afpedt ; fmooth above ; 

 paler and downy beneath ; their ferratures fimple. Flowers 

 in chillers, fimple or compound, relembliug thofe of the 

 double- flowering Bramble, and not much larger. Thun- 

 berg defcribes them white ; with us they are pink, with 

 very numerous, fmall, imbricated petals, a few remains of 

 /lament, and funic elongated, dilated, greenifh Jlyles. The 

 /lowers, on the firtt introduction of the plant, were reported 

 to be ■ How, but we have not heard »f any fucb variety 

 having made its appearance. 



ci. R. eaucafica. Caucafian Rofe. " Marfch. Taurico- 

 Caucaf. v. 1. 400." Ait. n. 33. — " Fruit ovate, fmooth 

 as well as the flower-ftalks. Leaf-ltalks prickly. Stem 

 not hairy ; its prickles hooked. Leaflets doubly ferrated, 

 downy. Flowers umbellate." — Native of mount Caucafus, 

 from whence it is faid, in Hort. Kew., to have been brought 

 to England about the year 1798. It is a hardy Ihrub, 

 flowering in June and July. We have feen neither fpecimen 

 nor figure. If the plant ftill exifls in our collections, it 

 ought to be delineated and given to the public. 



52. R. parvifolia. Small-leaved, or Burgundy, Rofe. 

 Ehrh. Beitr. v. 6. 97. Willd. n. 33. — "Fruit ovate, 

 nearly fmooth. Flower-ftalks glandular. Lcaf-ftalks and 

 flem with minute llraight prickles. Leaflets ovate, rugged ; 

 fomewhat villous beneath ; their ferratures glandular." 

 Said to be a native of Europe. A dwarf Jhrui. Leaflets 

 live, fmall, ovate, acute. Flowers fmall. Wilhlennw. We 

 know not what is intended under the above defcription, unlefs 

 it !>'• the Burgundy Rofe, Mils Lawrance's t. 44, which 

 we have, after the example of Hort. Kew. confidered as a 

 variety of centifatia or gallics, fee n. 28. The characters 

 anfwer, as far as any thing can be made out by the figure. 

 We fhould have fufpefted the Rofe de Meaux, Mil's I aw- 

 rance's t. 31, might have been Ehrhart's and Willdenow's 



plant ; but the hitter has duly referred that, as we have 



, lo provincialis in its proper place, and having feen 



both in a living Hate, mult be pivfumed to have dillinguiflicd 



There feems a great probability that the parvifolia 



in queftion is fome garden variety of the gallica, to which 



its characters approach fufficiently near to authorize this 

 opinion. We leave 1; for the final determination of thole 

 who may meet with authentic fpe< imi 1. . 



rflorens. Dark Chineie Rofe. Curt. Mag. 



Willd. n. 34. Ait. n. 34. Sm. Exot. Bot. 



v. 2. 63. t. 91. Lawr. Rof. t. 28. Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 



. 3. 17. t. 281. (R. diverfifolia ; Venten. .lard, de Cels, 



.. 35.)— Fruit ovate, rotighifh. Stem, leaf-flalka, and 



flowi r-ftalk ,, bifpid or prickly. Prickles hooked. Leaflet • 



• or five, ovate, fmooth ; paler beneath, with .1 hairy 



XXX. 



rib. Calyx reflexed, entire. — Native of China, from whence 

 it was introduced by the late Mr. Slater, about the year 

 1789. The (hrub is perfectly uninjured by any of our 

 frolls, and where the air is pure, grows luxuriantly in the 

 open ground, flowering molt part of the year. Yet it fomc- 

 times dies off unaccountably, and is not become fo general 

 an ornament of every cottage garden as the Pale Chine) 

 Rofe, hereafter mentioned, brought to England about the 

 fame period. The J'empcrjlorens is generally of humbl • 

 growth, but in a rich loamy foil, on the out fide ot a green- 

 houfe, may be trained to a confiderable height. The Jlen> 

 is much and varioufly branched, armed with Icattered, (hort, 

 hooked prickles. Leaflets three or five, ovate, acute, rigid, 

 unequally ferrated ; of a dark (timing green, and fmooth. 

 above ; paler, and rather glaucous, beneath, with a denfely 

 hairy rib. Leaf-ftalhs clothed with glandular briftles, and 

 fome foft hairs, as well as with a few hooked prickles. 

 Shpulas linear, acute, fringed with ltalked glands. Flower- 

 ftalks terminal, ufually folitary, rough with glands or prickles, 

 fingle-flowered. Segments of the calyx reeflxed, lanceolate, 

 coloured, fimple and entire, downy, more or lefs fringed or 

 glandular at the edges. Petals deep crimfon, fometimes very- 

 dark, tremulous from the fleadernefs of their claws ; paler 

 at the back. The figures in Ventenat, and our Exotic 

 Botany, exhibit the flowers in a (ingle ftate ; the relt have 

 double Jlowers, as uiually (een in gardens. Jacquin repre- 

 fents a fuppofed blufh-coloured variety, which is probably 

 indica, n. 55. The fruit is moftly roughiih, at lead when 

 young ; but fometimes quite fmooth. We have not met 

 with it ripe. The fhrub is readily increafed by cuttings. 



54. R. chinenjis. Slender Chinefe Rofe. Jacq. Obi. 

 falc. 3. 7. t. 55. — " Fruit ovate, fmooth as well as the 

 flower-ltalks. Leaf-ltalks and Item prickly. Leaflets 

 ufually three, ovato-lanceolate, finely ferrated, fmooth." — 

 Native of China. Defcribed by Jacquin from fome fpecimens 

 belonging to Gronovius. He fpeaks of the leaves as per- 

 fectly fmooth and (timing, and the fegments of the calyx 

 fringed with down. The leaves were moitly ternate, fome 

 of them only having a fmall additional leaflet at one fide. 

 This is very likely to be, as Willdenow futpeCtcd, the fame 

 fpecies with our femperfiorens. If it fhould fo prove, we 

 hope the latter name, though of polterior date, will not be 

 facrificed to one fo vague and mdifcriminate as chinenjis ; ef- 

 pecially as femperfiorens is now ettablifhed in fyftematic works 

 of authority, and Jacquin himfelf, who, in his Hort. 

 Schoenbr. confidered thefe plants as the fame, has liberally 

 preferred it. 



55. R. indiea. Blufh Chinefe Rofe. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 705. Willd. u. 36. Ait. n. 35. (R. femperfiorens /? ; 

 Lawr. Rof. t. 26. R. longifolia ; Willd. 11. 37.) — Fruit 

 ovate, fmooth. Flower-ltalks brillly and glandular. Leaf- 

 ltalks glandular and prickly. Leaflets ovate, pointed, 

 fmooth ; paler beneath. Prickles of the (lem Icattered, 

 ihghtly hooked. Flowers fomewhat corymbofe. Calyx 

 partly pinnate a, id leafj . Native of China and the Eall 

 Indies. Introduced by fir J. Bank,, about the year 1789, 

 into the gardens of England, where it proves quite hardy, 

 flowering profutely, almofl throughout the v ir ; "ind 1 



undoubtedly one ot the nu lit deferable acqu of the 



ornamental kind, that our collection I ■ .. lor a long time 



1 eived. Thejkrub is ol rapid and lofty growth, much 



llronger than R. fempi rflorens. Stem more or l.-fs armed 

 with fcattered, very ftroi lift, (harp, hooked or re- 



curved prickles, which we have new 1 f< 11 -\ nti hj v. inting. 

 Leaves of a full, bright, mining green on the uppei fide; 

 paler, opaque, and aim 1 ' cou . ben Bth i tli ii . 

 tor the mure part five, ovate, taper-pointed, Hi rply and 

 4 B pretty 



