HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION 
all the species of Roses have been figured from time to time in the 
Botanical Magazine , beginning with Rosa muscosa in 1787, down 
to Rosa Willmottiae in 1908, Rosa Aloyesii in 1910, and Rosa 
Omeiensis in 1912. Many coloured plates of Roses also appeared 
in the Botanical Register under Lindley’s editorship. Reichenbach’s 
leones Florae Germanicae has not reached the Roses, but the German 
Roses are figured on a small scale by Sturm in his Deutschlands Flora 
(1798-1848). 
GENERAL WORKS AFTER LINNAEUS, Not Illustrated 
Johann Herrmann, in his Dissertation on Roses, published in 
1762, revived Rosa moscliata and Rosa pom if era as binominal names. 
Hudson, in his Flora Anglica, published the same year, did the 
same for Rosa arvensis. Philip Miller, in the eighth edition of his 
Gardeners Dictionary , published in 1768 (the first edition in which 
binominal names are used), revived several species known to Parkinson 
and Ray which Linnaeus passed over. He admits twenty-one species. 
In the two editions of Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis (1789 and 18 11) 
we have a synopsis of the garden species. In Willdenow’s Species 
Plantarum (179 7) we get an excellent synopsis of thirty-nine species. 
H is herbarium is at Berlin, and his Roses have been reviewed by 
Crepin. Trattinnick’s Monograph was published in 1823, but does 
not contain much that is original. In 1825 Seringe monographed 
the Roses for the second volume of De Candolle’s Prodromes. The 
Catalogue of Desdglise, published in 1877, contains a synonymic list 
of 405 species, as he regards them, with an account of their distribution. 
Crepin’s very numerous papers on Roses are scattered through the 
volumes of the Bulletin de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique , 
but he has written less about the Roses of France than those of any 
other country. It is much to be regretted that his life should have 
closed before the publication of his projected great monograph of the 
genus to which he had devoted such life-long study. Nyman’s Sylloge 
(1854-65) and Conspectus (1878) contain careful accounts of the 
distribution of the European species. 
The Index Kewensis gives specific rank to 493 Roses, with 
additions in the first, second, and third Supplements amounting to 
about 50. 
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