HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION 
Rosa Carolina fragrans , and in the same work are figures of Rosa 
sanguisorbae and Rosa sempervirens. In the third edition of Ray’s 
Synopsis Plantarum Angliae , Dillenius enumerates six wild species 
as English, Rosa canina , Rosa tomentosa , Rosa rubiginosa , /fora 
arvensis , /fora spinosissima, and /fora pomifera , by the latter perhaps 
intending /fora mollis . 
LINNAEUS 
Linnaeus, in the first edition of his Species Plantarum , published 
in 1753, admits as species /fora cinnamomea , /fora Eglanteria, 
Rosa villosa, Rosa canina , /fora spinosissima , /fora centifolia, Rosa 
gallica, Rosa alba , /fora indica , /fora sempervirens , /fora pendulina , 
and /fora Carolina . In the second edition, eleven years later, he adds 
/fora alpina and /fora pimpinellifolia , but these are both only synonyms 
of species included in the first edition. Later, in the Mantissa (1767), 
he adds /fora rubiginosa , but this is the /fora Eglanteria of the first 
edition of the Species Plantarum. He had in his herbarium specimens 
of /fora moschata , /fora agrestis (. sepium ), and /fora multiflora, but 
these he left unnoticed. 
GENERAL WORKS AFTER LINNAEUS, Illustrated 
The first illustrated book exclusively on Roses is Miss Lawrance’s 
folio volume, with ninety beautiful plates, published in 1799. 
Unfortunately it is exceedingly rare. Roessig’s book, published 
in 1 802-20, contains 121 coloured figures. The most comprehensive 
and best-known illustrated work on Roses is Redoute’s, with text 
by Thory. It forms three volumes in small folio and came out 
from 1817 to 1824. It contains 172 plates. The 129 figures of 
Andrews, published in two quarto volumes from 1805 to 1828, are 
much inferior to those of the other three works. Lindley’s Monograph, 
first published in 1820, is a wonderful performance for a young man of 
twenty-one. It contains descriptions of all the species then known, 
with full synonymy, and 19 figures. His plan of classification is 
practically that followed in the present work. A second edition was 
published in 1830. In 1824 Lindley’s Monograph was well translated 
into Trench, amplified, and brought up to date by De Pronville, author 
of a good Nomenclature raisonnee du Genre Rosier (1818). Nearly 
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