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pretty equally, but not drongly, ferrated. Leaf-Jlalks 

 bordered with glandular bridles, and furnifhed with a few 

 hooked prickles. Stipulas linear, narrow, reticulated, 

 fringed with red glandular bridles ; their points acute, diva- 

 ricated at right angles. Flower-Jlalks terminal, very nu- 

 merous and corymbofein drong-growing plants ; in ordinary 

 ones fewer ; in fome folitary and fingle-flowered at the ends 

 of weak lateral branches. They are always clothed with 

 minute glandular briitles, even in the original fpecimen of 

 Linnceus, which he defcribed as fmooth. Neither are the 

 leaves of that fpecimen downy beneath. He feems to have 

 taken that character from another, which he confounded 

 therewith, but which we judge to be mofchata, whofe very 

 young leaves bear a few hairs on their ribs and veins. Flowers 

 moderately large, in a double (late confiding of numerous, 

 lax, diforderly petals, varying with every tint of pink or 

 carnation, and having a fweet, though light, odour, as in 

 femperjlorens, but not exactly the fame. The perfume of 

 both is very inferior to mod of our garden Rofes, and even 

 to the wild R. eanina. The calyx of R. indica is variable in 

 luxuriance, but always in fome degree leafy, pinnate, or 

 jagged. Fruit large, pale fc.irlet. On a careful compa- 

 nion of Willdenow's longifolia, (fent by the Rev. Dr. Rott- 

 ler, and by the late Dr. Koenig, from the Ead Indies,) 

 with our garden plant, and the Linnaean fpecimen, we can 

 have no doubt of their perfect identity ; though the prickles 

 of the Jlem feem wanting on the upper part, at lead, of the 

 luxuriant Indian fpecimens. Every one, who has attended 

 to the cultivated R. indica, will be aware that this circutn- 

 dance is of no importance, in the confideration of fuch 

 materials a6 we have before us. 



56. R. bracleata. Macartney Rofe, or Sir George 

 Staunton's Rofe. Willd. n. 38. Ait. n. 36. Venten. 

 Jard. de Cels, t. 2S. Curt. Mag. t. 1377. (R. lucida ; 

 Lawr. Rof. t. 84.) — Fruit obovate. Bradteas pectinated, 

 concealing the flower-dalk, which is villous like the young 

 branches. Prickles in pairs under the prickly leaf-dalks. 

 Leaflets obovate, obtufe, crenate, fmooth and mining. 

 Stipulas desply jagged. Calyx filky, taper-pointed. — 

 Native of China, from whence it was brought by lord Ma- 

 cartney and fir G. Leonard Staunton, in 1795. It proves 

 tolerably hardy in England, flowering from Augud to the 

 end of autumn ; but is often fo much injured by expofure 

 to our fevere frofts, as feldom to recover fufficiently to 

 blofiom well in the enfuing fummer. The jlem is four or 

 five feet high, downy, armed with a pair of deflexed reddifh 

 prickles under each leaf-Jlalh, and with innumerable minute 

 ilraight ones over the whole furface. Leaf-Jlalks hairy, 

 glandular, and prickly. Leaflets about leven or nine, rigid, 

 mining, of a fine green ; their ribs minutely prickly. 

 Stipulas but little attached to the leaf-dalk, deeply cut, or 

 pedtinated, at one fide. Flowers terminal, folitary, large, 

 cream-coloured, agreeably fcented, on (hort hairy flails, 

 which are concealed by feveral large, fheathing, deeply 

 peftinate, or pinnatifid, brafleas. Calyx coriaceous, taper- 

 pointed, very filkv externally. Ventenat mentions a fmall 

 central point, in the finus of each petal, which we do not 

 find condant. The Jlipulas, and efpecially the bradeas, are 

 fo peculiar, that this fpecies can be confounded with no 

 other. 



57. R. alba. White Garden Rofe. Linn. Sp. PL 705. 

 Willd. n. 39. Ait. n. 37. Lawr. Rof. t. 37. t. 25. 

 t. 23. t. 32. Ger. Em. 1260, with the fame cut which 

 Lobel ufes for 7?. damafcena. — Fruit ovate, fmooth. 

 Flower-dalks and calyx briflly. Leaf-dalks downy, armed 

 like the dem with hooked prickles. Leaflets roundifh-ovate, 

 3iarply ferrated, downy beneath. Calyx partly pinnate. 



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— Native of Europe ; in the hedges and thickets of Heffe 

 and Saxony, according to Roth. Common in our gardens 

 from the days of Gerarde, flowering in June and July. 

 The bulb is five or fix feet high. Leaves dark green, of 

 five or feven large, broad leaflets, fharply and copioufly fer- 

 rated, veiny ; paler, and more or lefs downy, beneath. 

 Stipulas paler, broad, dilated upwards, with glandular fer- 

 ratures, and obliquely fpreading points. Flowers large, 

 fomewiiat corvmbofe, pleafantly but weakly fcented, ufually 

 pure white, but often tinged with a mod delicate blufh, as 

 in Mifs Lavvrance's t. 23 and t. 32. Segments of the calyx 

 partly bordered with long leafy appendages, glandular at 

 the edges. BraSeas like the Jlipulas, but more ovate. 

 Fruit tawny, rarely perfected in gardens. We can give no 

 good reafon for placing the prefent fpecies here, at a didance 

 from gallica, n. 28,, to which it is mod naturally allied. No 

 difficulty or confufion indeed can arife refpecting a plant fo 

 well known, and fo clearly defined. The White Rofe was 

 formerly an article of the Materia Medica, its didilled 

 water, which pofiefles a flight altringency, being fuppofed 

 good for inflammations and weaknedes of the eyes. A 

 more fragrant water, equally colourlefs and efficacious, is 

 didilled from the Provins rofe, n. 26 ; which, we believe, is 

 ufually kept in the fhops. In Lime of this, after long 

 keeping, we have feen a floating oilinefs, as delicioufly and 

 powerfully fragrant as the oriental ottar of rofes. 



Our catalogue of fpecies thus amounts to 18 more than 

 Willdenow's, notwithdanding fome retrenchments. The 

 drawings of the Chinefe afford reafon to fuppofe we are 

 not yet acquainted with all their fpecies, and we have already 

 hinted that fome Iiifh ones are dill waiting for more com- 

 plete elucidation than they have hitherto received. The 

 diltribution of the fpecies in general requires reviiion ; nor 

 have botanifls fufficiently adverted to fome characters, that 

 appear to us more important than feveral they have depended 

 upon. The number, and precife fituation, of the fub- 

 dipulary prickles, the form of the itipulas, and the flrufture 

 of the calyx, appear to us more condant, than the abfence 

 or prefence of glands, or of pubeicence, in certain parts. 

 The nature of the ferratures of the leaves, whether fimple or 

 double, glandular or not, is likewife occafionally worthy of 

 notice. 



Rosa, in Gardening, contains plants of the deciduous 

 flowering, fhrub, and evergreen kind, of which the fpecies 

 cultivated are: the fingle yellow rofe (R. lutea) ; the 

 double yellow rofe (R. fulphurea ) ; the Hudfon's-bay rofe 

 ( R. blanda) ; the cinnamon rofe ( R. cinnamomea) ; the 

 white dog rofe ( R. arvenfis) ; the fmall burnet-leaved rofe 

 (R. pimpinellifolia) ; the Scotch rofe (R. fpinoliffima) ; 

 the lmall-flowered American rofe ( R. parviflora) ; the 

 (hining-leaved American rofe ( R. lucida) ; the Carolina 

 rofe 1 R. Carolina) ; the apple rofe (R. villofa) ; the Pro- 

 vence rofe ( R. provincialis) ; the hundred-leaved rofe 

 (R. centifolia) ; the red rofe (R. gallicai ; the damafk rofe 

 ( R. damafcena); the evergreen rofe ( R. fempervirens) ; 

 the dwarf Audrian rofe (R. pumila) ; the Frankfort rofe 

 (R. turbinata) ; the fweet-briar rofe (R. rnbiginoia) ; the 

 mofs Provence rofe (R. mufcofal ; the mufk rofe (R. mof- 

 chata) ; the Alpine rofe (R. alpina) ; the deep red China 

 rofe (R. femperflorens) ; and the white rofe ( R. alba). 



Of the firft there is a variety termed the Audrian rofe, 

 which has the (talks, branches, and leaves, like thofe of the 

 fingle yellow rofe, but the leaves are rounder. The flowers 

 are alfo larger ; the petals have deep indentures at their 

 points ; are of a pale yellow on the outfide, and of a reddifh 

 copper colour, orange fcarlet, or barre colour within ; are 

 fingle, have no feent, or a difagreeable one, and foon fall 



away. 



