R O S 



11 O S 



the croaking of the toad," &c. And in Salvator all 

 the charms and fpells of the witches in Macbeth are 

 invoked. 



XI. Is a gloomy, grumbling hiftory of this painter and 

 poet-mufician's life, in which the comic exaggeration is not 

 unpleafant ; but it is rather a fatire on the times in which 

 he lived, than a lyric compofition. However, it is fet by 

 Bandini ; but being chiefly narrative, the mufic is almoft 

 wholly recitative ; fcarcely any meafured melody being intro- 

 duced, except to the firft line, which ferves as a refrein, or 

 burden. 



XII. Is an excellent cantata on the torments of jealoufy, 

 fet by Luigi, in which there is more air and lefs recitative 

 than ufual at this period. 



XIII. Is a fingle air by Aleflandro Scarlatti, which 

 muft have been produced early in that great compofer's life ; 

 as Salvator, in whofe hand-writing it is entered in his book, 

 died in 1675 (Orlandi Abcdario Pittorico) ; fome writers 

 fay in 1673. See Scarlatti. 



XIV. and XV. Are two fingle airs by Legrenzi, of 

 which the melody is pleafing ; they were perhaps fung in 

 operas. The mufic of all the red of the cantatas and fongs 

 in this book, amounting to eight, is of Salvator's own com- 

 pofition, and is not only admirable for a dilettante, but in 

 point of melody fuperior to that of moft of the mailers of 

 his time. 



The two firft are cantatas, but fo ill written as to be 

 difficult to read. The third begins with a pleafing air ; 

 and the fourth with fuch a fpirited movement as the feven- 

 teenth century feldom produced. Two other airs in the 

 fame cantata are well accented, and pleafing. In the reci- 

 tative of the fifth cantata, fome of the firft true clofes 

 occur that we have met with in narrative melody. There 

 are feveral airs in this and the reft of Salvator's cantatas 

 on pleafing fubjefts, and treated in a manner above medio- 

 crity. The laft of his airs is chiefly remarkable for its 

 moving bafe : and if we only fuppofe this cantata to have 

 been compofed juft before the author's death, it will be of 

 a higher date than the publication, or perhaps the exigence 

 of any of Corelli'6 works, who is fuppofed to have been the 

 inventor of this kind of pendulum bafe ; which, however, 

 frequently occurs in the cantatas of Cefti. 



Whoever is curious to fee fpecimens of Salvator Rofa's 

 mufical compofitions, may find in the fourth volume of 

 Burney's Gen. Hift. Muf. fragments, not only of his 

 own productions, but of his contemporary compofers of 

 eminence, whofe works he thought worth entering in his 

 mufic-book. Signorelli, torn. v. p. 338. 



Rosa da Tivoli. See Roos. 



Rosa, in Geography, 2l fmall ifland near the E. coaft of 

 Sardinia. N. lat. 39° 5'. E. long. 9 3'.— Alfo, a town 

 of Germany, in the county of Henneberg ; five miles S. 

 of Saltzungen. — Alfo, a town of Spain, in the province 

 of Seville ; eight miles S. of San Lucar. 



Rosa. See St. Rofa. 



Rosa, Cape, a cape on the coaft of Algiers. N. lat. 

 37 2'. E. long. 8 C 5'. 



Rosa, Mount, an eminence of the Alps, reckoned the 

 fecond mountain of that famous ridge, lying about midway 

 between Great St. Bernard and the lake of Locarno. M. 

 Saufture vifited this mountain, which has been reckoned 

 only 60 feet inferior in height to Mont Blanc, this 

 being eftirnated about 14,700 feet above the level of 

 the fea. But in fir George Shuckburgh's table of heights 

 taken by the barometer, &c. (Phil. Tranf. vol. lxvii. 

 p. 592.) Mont Blanc is elevated 14,432 feet above the 

 hke of Geneva, and 15,662 feet above the Mediterranean; 



and mount Rofa, as meafured geometrically by Father 

 Beccaria, is 15,084 feet above the fame fea. 



Rosa Cruets, in Church Hiftory. See Rosycrucians. 

 Rosa Fatuina, in Botany, a name given by fome authors 

 to the piony. 



Rosa Junonis, a name given by fome authors to the 

 lily. 



ROSACEiE, the 92d natural order in Jufiieu's fyftem, 

 the 10th of his 14th clafs. See Ficoide.b, for the diftinc- 

 tions of that clafs. The characters of this large and im- 

 portant order, named from the Rofe, and rofe-like flower; , 

 which compofe it, are the following. 



Calyx either fuperior, and tubular ; or inferior, pitcher 

 or wheel-fhaped ; its limb moftly divided, and generally 

 permanent. Petals definite, ulually five, inferted into the 

 upper part of the calyx and alternate with its divifions ; 

 fometimes wanting. Stamens indefinite, rarely definite, in- 

 ferted into the fame part below the petals ; anthers often 

 roundifh. Germen in fome cafes fimple, inferior, the ftyles 

 and ftigmas moftly numerous ; in others fuperior, fimple, 

 with one ftyle, or manifold with many ftyles ; the ftyles in 

 every initance lateral, or proceeding from the fide of each 

 germen. Structure of the fruit various; in fome an in- 

 ferior apple, of many cells, or a fort of cup or urn, ap- 

 parently inferior, bearing many feeds, over which it clofes ; 

 in others the feeds, or feed-vefiels, each of one cell, and 

 moftly fingle-feeded, indefinite or definite, are fuperior, 

 Handing on a common receptacle ; in others, again, there 

 is either a folitary fuperior capfule of one cell ; or a fuperior 

 nut, with one or two feeds, which is either naked, or in- 

 verted with a drupaceous coat. The fear of each feed is 

 lateral, juft below the fummit, connected by a thread, or 

 umbilical cord, with the lower part of the feed-veffel. Cor- 

 culum ftraight, without an albumen. Stem herbaceous, 

 (hrubby, or arboreous. Leaves either fimple or compound, 

 alternate, accompanied by flipulas. 



Section I. Pomace.*. Germen fimple, inferior, -with 

 many ftyles. Apple umbilicated, or bordered, -with the limb of 

 the calyx, of many cells. Trees or (hrubs. — This feftion 

 contains the Linnxan genera of Pyrus, (from which Juffieu 

 dillinguiihes Malus and Cydonia,) Mefpilus, Crattgus, and 

 Sorbus. 



Sett. 2. RosiE properly fo called. Germens feveral, 

 indefinite, invefled with the urn-like calyx controlled at the top, 

 fo that they feem inferior ; each accompanied by one ftyle. Seeds 

 as many. Shrubs. — Rofa here Hands alone. 



SecL 3. Sa:> t GUIsorb.i. Germens feveral, definite, rarely 

 folitary, invefled 'with cup-liie calyx contraSed at the top, fo 

 that they feem inferior ; each with one ftyle. Seeds as many. 

 MolUy herbaceous, many of them without petals, many 

 with a definite number of ltamens, fome with ftamens and 

 pillils in ieparate flowers. 



Poterium, Sanguiforba, Anciflrum, Acsna, Agrimonia, Neu- 

 rada, Cliffortia, Aphanes, Alchimilla, and Sibbaldia. 



Seel. 4. Potentill.*:. Germens feveral, indefinite, truly 

 fuperior, fanding on a common receptacle, each with one 

 flyle. Seeds as many, naked, rarely pulpy. — Herbs, rarely 

 (hrubs. 



Tormentilla, Potentilla, Fragaria, Comarum, Gtum, Dryat, 

 Rubus ; to which is to be added our Duchefnea, (fee Fra- 

 garia, at the conclufion) now defenbed m Tr. of Linn. 

 Soc. v. 10. 372. 



Seft. 5. SpirjejE. Germens feveral, definite, fuperior, 

 each 'with one flyle. Capfules as many, with one or more feeds. 

 — Shrubs, rarely herbs. 



Spirsa, Suriana, and Tetracera. 



Seft. 6. ProC'RIvS. Germen fingle, fuperior, with one 



