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AltBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III 



Beitr., vi. p. 97., Ker in Bot. Reg., t. 452., Don's 

 Mill., ii. p. 573. ; R. burgundiaca Rossig. Ros., 

 t. 4. ; R. remensis Desf. Cat., t. 175., and our 

 jig. 494. The Burgundy Rose. — A dwarf com- 

 pact shrub, with stiff, ovate, acute, and sharply 

 serrated small leaflets, and veiy double purple 

 flowers, which are solitary, and have some re- 

 semblance, in form and general appearance, to 

 the flower of a double-flowered Asiatic ranun- 

 culus. Besides these botanical varieties, given 

 in Don's Miller, there are 19 in the Nouveau 

 Du Hamel, 



«t 38. R. pulche'lla Willd. The neat Rose. 



Identification. Willd. Enum., p. 545. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 573. 



Spec. Char., Sj-c. Ovaries roundish-obovate. Peduncles and calyxes beset 

 with glandular bristles. Petioles clothed with glandular pubescence, unarmed. 

 Cauline prickles scattered. (Don's Mill, ii. p. 573.) Native country un- 

 known. Allied to R. turbinata; but the stems are much smaller; the flow- 

 ers also smaller ; and the form of the ovaries is different. Perhaps this is 

 the rose de Meaux of the gardens, or some variety of R. gallica. It is a 

 shrub, 2 ft. high, and produces its flowers in June and July. (Don's Mill., 

 ii. p. 573.) 



Remark. Besides the above species and varieties, and numerous other 

 garden varieties arranged under the different heads, the names of which we 

 have not given, Don enumerates above 700 garden varieties, which he con- 

 siders as "belonging to some of the species of the present section." (See 

 Don's Mill,, ii. p. 573.) 



§ vi. Villbsa?. 



Derivation. From villosus, villous ; in allusion to the hairiness of the species. 



Sect. Char. Surculi erect. Prickles straightish. Leaflets ovate or oblong, 

 with diverging serratures. Sepals connivent, permanent. Disk thickened, 

 closing the throat. This division borders equally close upon those of 

 Caninae and Rubiginosae. From both it is distinguished by its root-suckers 

 being erect and stout. The most absolute marks of difference, however, 

 between this and Caninae, exist in the prickles of the present section being 

 straight, and the serratures of the leaves diverging. If, as is sometimes the 

 the case, the prickles of this tribe are falcate, the serratures become more 

 diverging. The permanent sepals are another character by which this tribe 

 may be known from Caninae. Rubiginosae cannot be confounded with 

 the present section, on account of the unequal hooked prickles, and 

 glandular leaves, of the species. Roughness of fruit, and permanence of 

 sepals, are common to both. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 576.) 



s* 39. R. turbina v ta Ait. The turbinate-m/j/^ec?, or Frankfort, Rose. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1. v. 2. p. 206. ; Dec. 



Prod., 2. p. 603; Don's Mill., 2. p. 576. 

 Synonymes. Ii. campanulata Ehrh. Beitr., 6. p. 97. ; R. fran- 



cofo'rtiana Munch. Hausv., 5. p. 24. ; R. francfurtensis Rossig. 



Bat, t. n. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Schonbr., 4. t. 415. ; Jacq. Fragm., 71. 



t. 107. I 2. j Red! Rob., 1. p. 127.; Rossig. Kos., t. 11. ; Law. 



Ros., t. 69. ; and our Jig. 495. 



Sjjrr. Char., Sfc. Stem nearly without prickles. 

 Branches smooth. Leaflets 5 — 7, ovate-cor- 

 date, large, wrinkled in a bullate manner, ser- 

 rate, approximate, a little villous beneath. 

 Stipules large, clasping the stem or branch. 

 Flowers disposed subcorymbosely, large, viola- 

 ceous red* Peduncles wrinkled and hispid. 

 Calyx turbinate, srnootfiish. Sepals undivided, 



