1 18 — ROSA CENTIFOLIA, var. CRISTATA Prcvost 
CRESTED PROVENCE ROSE 
Rosa centifolia , var . crist at a : a typo receclit sepalis ad marginem processis 
copiosc compositis, hand glandulosis, appendiculatis. 
R. centifolia , var. crist at a Prcvost, Catalogue lies Rosters, p. 53 (1829). — 
Annates de Flore et dc Pomone , p. 372 (1833). — Curtis in Pot. Mag. vol. lxiii. 
t- 3475 (1836). 
Stem tall, arching ; prickles scattered, moderately robust, slightly hooked, with 
a few irregular aciculi and gland-tipped bristles between them. Leaflets 7, large, 
oblong, obtuse, doubly serrated, glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent beneath ; 
petioles pubescent, slightly glandular ; stipules gland-edged, with small free tips. 
Flowers several, corymbose, large, pink, fragrant ; peduncles furnished with copious 
aciculi and gland-tipped bristles. Calyx-tube turbinate, aciculate ; lobes naked on 
the back, appendiculate on the edge, with linear very compound processes which 
are not gland-edged. Fruit not seen. 
The Crested Rose differs from the Moss Rose by having the 
copiously compound mossy processes as appendages confined to the 
edges of the sepals which are not margined with glands. 
The first to describe this beautiful and interesting Rose was 
Prevost. He received it from Switzerland, where it was found, by a 
botanist whose name is not recorded, growing on the top of a ruined 
tower which had formed part of an ancient commandery. According 
to Prevost’s description, it possessed all the characters of a centifolia 
with the addition of mossy appendages which, springing from the 
sepals, bordered two of them completely and a third on one side only; 
these appendages, being again subdivided, formed separate little tufts 
or crests at the summit, giving the buds a unique and curious appear- 
ance. The next record occurs in the Annales dc Flore et de Pomone 
of 1833, where Jacques speaks of it as one of the most interesting and 
curious of the many varieties of Rosa centifolia , possessing a charm 
quite peculiar to itself by reason of the unusual arrangement and growth 
of the mossy processes on the calyx. His article is accompanied by 
a rather crude plate which, although it gives a general idea of the 
appearance of Rosa cristata , does no justice to its beauty. By 1836 
Curtis had it growing in his garden at Glazenwood, near Coggeshall, 
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