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27. ROSACEiE. 
digious length, 20-30 ft., simple arched or trailing. L. ever- 
green. Lfts. soft, thickly hairy-pubescent beneath. FI. about an 
in. in diam., of a lovely delicate pink or rose-colour, but nearly 
or quite scentless, produced in vast profusion in thickly crowded 
terminal corymbs all over the pi., very double, and yet with 
well-formed stigmas, but never fertile or producing fr. 
The comparatively scentless common Pink China or Ever- 
blowing Pose (R. inclica L. a, DC.) called by the Portuguese 
“ Rosa Ingleza ,” and the old English cottage-garden semi-double 
very fragrant deep blush-pink Damask Pose ( R . clamascena 
Mill, y ? DC.), with running roots, and gr. stems, called u Rosa 
Portugueza ,” both occurring everywhere in gardens, are also 
often seen in hedges and waste ground on the outskirts of en- 
closures about houses, growing wholly without culture. 
The other sp. seen most commonly cult, in gardens are the Tea 
Poses ( R . indica L. o, DC.) ; the small dark blood-red or atro- 
purpureous Everblowing Rose “ R. do Rato ” Port. (R. indica 
L. 0, DC., R. sempcrflorcns Curt. BM. t. 284, R. Bengalensis 
Pers. and Holl's List in J. of Bot. i. 21, 41); the white Rose- 
Unique (/?. centifolia L. y, DC.) ; the old English pink Moss- 
rose “ R. dc Musgo” Port. (R. centifolia L. e, DC.) ; the com- 
mon white or Maiden-blush ( R . alba L.); the White Lady 
Banks’s (R. Banksice R. Br.) ; the old double dark blood-red 
and semi-double Red or striped red and white York and Lan- 
caster Roses “ R. cle Alexandria ” and “I?. raiada dc Alex- 
andria" Port. (R. gallica L., Buch 197. no. 376 ; R. gallica 
varr. 1, 2, 3 Brot. ii. 342, 343; R. gallica S,e*, and e, DC. = 
R. gallica (3, BM. t. 1794), and the curious scentless R. mi- 
crophylla Roxb. BM. t. 3490, with muricate fr. and Briar-like 
foliage. Many other sp. and varr. also occur. But these, like 
R. sulphured Ait. with its fine large double y. fl., and R. 'mos- 
chata Mill. ( R . dc Mosqueta) with its large ample panicles 
of delicate pure white semi-double fl. possessing a most deli- 
cate though not powerful fragrance, are comparatively rare, 
and are entirely confined to a few gardens about Funchal or 
Quintas in the country. 
Prof. Lindley (Ros. Monogr. 122) says of R. moschata Mill., 
“ This is one of the few sp. found in the N. of Africa, extend- 
ing across the continent from Egypt to Mogadoro and thence 
to Madeira, whence it was brought by Sir George Staunton, 
and by him communicated to Mr. Lambert.” And he pro- 
ceeds to speak of it as “ found wild ” in Spain, though it has 
little of tho habit of a European Roso. In Mad. it is cer- 
tainly not indigenous, and is indeed only a rare inmate of 
gardens, showing no tendency whatever to become naturalized 
or even common. 
