ROSA HECKELIANA 
specimen collected by Sibthorp on Mount Parnassus and labelled by 
him “Rosa Parnassica,” but this name was not published. Christ 1 
speaks of Rosa Heckeliana as being the southern representative of Rosa 
tomentosa Sm. It comes very near to certain forms of Rosa orientalis 
Dupont, but its nearest affinity is with Rosa mollis Sm., from which 
it differs by its more copious unequal prickles, small, suborbicular, 
simply toothed leaflets, and small fruits. It is not in cultivation in 
England. 
Mr. Baker 2 considers it an almost precise counterpart of the 
English Rosa Doniana W oods in general habit ; but the prickles are 
uniform and curved, and the major sepals copiously compound. 
1 “ Allgemeine Ergebnisse aus der systematischen Arbeit am Genus Rosa.” Butanisches Centralblatt , 
vol. xviii. p. 349 (1884). 
2 Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 205 (1869). 
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