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which Germain de St. Pierre lias given the name of B. amabilh, 

 is only a garden variety of It. g/gantca. 



Sfxt. IV. — Bankslzg, Cr&pin, 



Styles free, included ; stigmas forming a sessile Lead over 

 the orifice of the receptacle ; sepals entire, rcflexed after 

 jloiccrimj, caducous ; inflorescence many-flowered, umbellate, with 

 very small caducous bracts ; stipules free, subulate, caducous; 

 leaves on the flower shoots 5- 7-foliolatc ; stems sarmentose, 

 prickles hooked, alternate. 



B. Banksice, R. Brown, 1811. — China. 



B. Banksice is in cultivation with double flowers of white 

 or a pale yellow. Crossed with B. lecvigata it has produced 

 the Rose known under the name of B. Fortuncaua, Lindley. 



Sect. V. — Gallics, Cretin, 

 (Div. Centifol'm, Lindley.) 



Styles free, included ; stigmas forming a sessile head over the 

 orifice of the receptacle ; neck of the receptacle shorter than the 

 long hairs by which it is covered; sepals reflexed after flowering, 

 caducous, the exterior pinnate ; inflorescence often one-flowered, 

 with a bractless pedicel, or rarely furnished with a very narrow 

 bract, two- or many-flowered, with the primary pedicel often 

 provided with a bract ; stipules adnaie, the upper ones not dilated ; 

 leaves on the flower-shoots 3- 5-foliolate ; stems erect ; prickles 

 usually hooked, alternate, usually mixed with aciculi, glandular 

 or not glandular. 



B. gallica, Linnaeus, 1753 (R. centifolia, Linnaeus ; R. 

 muscosa, Miller). — Europe, Asia-Minor. 



B. gallica, cultivated from the earliest times, has given rise 

 to a crowd of garden varieties which constitute one of the most 

 beautiful groups of our collections. By crossing with the Indicce 

 it produced a great number of hybrids, perpetual and otherwise. 

 In nature B. gallica crosses freely with B. arvensis, and with 

 many species of the section Canina. 



Many authors have considered it. damascena, Miller (1768), 

 to be a distinct type, classing it in section Gallica, but it is 

 probable that this Rose is a hybrid produced from B. gcdlica 

 crossed with a species of the section Can in a. B. cdba, Linnanis 

 (1753), appears to be of the same nature. 



