91— ROSA FOETIDA, var. BICOLOR 
COPPER AUSTRIAN BRIAR 
Rosa foetida, var. bicolor : a typo recedit floribus intus cupreo-rubris. 
R. Punicea Miller, Card. Diet. ed. 8, vol. ii. No. 12 (1768). — Du Koi, Harb/c. 
Baum. vol. ii. p. 347 (1772). — Roessig, Die Rosen, No. 5 (1802-1820). 
R. bico/or ] 3 .cquin, Hort. Bind. vol. i. t. i (1770). 
R. lutea, var. bicolor Sims in Bot. Mag. vol. x.xvii. t. 1077 (1808). — 
Bois, Atl. PI. Jard. t. 84 (1896). 
R. Eglanteria, var. punicea Thory in Redoutc, Roses, vol. i. p. 71, t. (1817); 
Prodr. Monogr. Ros. p. 100 (1820). — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. vol. iv. 
P- 1557 (1902). 
R. lutea, var. punicea Keller in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. FI. 
vol. vi. p. 312 (1902). — C. K. Schneider, III. Handbuch Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 584 
(1906). 
Stem arching ; prickles slender, scattered. Leaflets 5-7, small, oblong, doubly 
serrated, pubescent beneath ; petioles pubescent ; stipules adnate, with small free 
tips. Flowers usually solitary ; peduncles naked or hispid. Calyx-tube small, 
globose; lobes simple, glandular on the back. Petals bright coppery red. Styles 
free, included. Fruit small, globose ; sepals finally deciduous. 
There is no record of the date of the introduction of the Copper 
Austrian Briar into this country, but it was certainly in cultivation 
here in the sixteenth century. Gerard grew it in his Holborn garden 
in 1596. It is figured by Parkinson^ under the name of “Rosa 
sylvestris austriaca flore pheniceo.” It is probably a variation, which 
has become fixed, of the yellow Austrian Briar, since it is not un- 
common to find on the same bush, simultaneously, pure yellow flowers 
as well as copper-coloured and even two-coloured flowers. Sometimes 
the petals are half copper-coloured and half yellow. It is now known 
in France as Rose Capucine ; formerly it was called the Rose Comtesse. 
About 1815 a double form was said to be growing in the gardens of 
the Montmorency valley, but there do not appear to be any double 
Copper Briars in existence at the present time. Wild specimens of 
the single form were collected by Dr. Stapf at Mardin and Sirvan in 
Asiatic Turkey, by Strauss in western Persia, and by Dr. Albert 
Regel in Turkestan. 
' Theatmm, p. ioi8, fig. 6 (1640). 
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