BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



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Yar. proyincialis includes the Provence, or Cabbage 

 Roses. 



Var. muSCOSa comprises tlie Moss Roses. 



Var. pomponia^ the Pompone Roses. According to 

 Loudon, we have made this a variety of J?, centifolia^ 

 although some authors assert it to have been found 

 growing wild in 1735, by a gardener of Dijon, in France, 

 who discovered it while cutting wood on a mount- 

 ain near that city. Many varieties of it have been ob- 

 tained, among which, the most singular is the little dwarf 

 given in the New Du Hamel as a distinct species. It 

 does not grow more than twelve or fifteen inches high, 

 and frequently perishes before blossoming. 



Var. bipmnata^ JRed^ has bipinnate leaves. 



R. Gallica^ X. — The French, or. Provence Rose. 

 Red Rose. — Synonyms. R. centifolia, 3IilL R. sylva- 

 tica, Gater, R. rubra, Lam. R. holosericea, Hossig, R. 

 Belgica, JBrot. R. blanda, JBrot Prickles unequal. Stip- 

 ules narrow, divaricate at the tip. Leaflets, 5 — 7, coria- 

 ceous, rigid, ovate or lanceolate, deflexed. Flower bud 

 ovate-globose; Sepals spreading during the time of the 

 flowering. Fruit, subglobose, very coriaceous. Calyx 

 and peduncle more or less hispid with glanded hairs, 

 somewhat viscose. 



A species allied to i?. centifolia^ X., but with round 

 fruit, and very coriaceous leaflets, with more numerous 

 nerves, that are a little prominent, and are anastomosing. 

 Native of middle Europe and Caucasus, in hedges. The 

 flowers vary from red to crimson, and from single to 

 double ; and there is one variety with the flowers double 

 white. The petals of some of the varieties of this rose 

 are used in medicine, which, though not so fragrant as 

 those of the Dutch hundred-leaved rose, also one of the 

 varieties of this species, are preferred for their beautiful 

 color and their pleasant astringency. The petals of R. 

 GalUca are those which are principally used for making 

 conserve of roses, and, when dried, for gargles : their odor 



