1 1 2— ROSA MARCYANA Boullu 
R. marcyana Boullu in Bull. Soc. Dauph. p. no (1874). — Bull. Soc. Bot. 
de France , vol. xxiii. p. lxvi (1876). — Cariot & St. Lager, Etude des FI. vol. ii. 
p. 283 (1889). — Rouy & Camus, Flore de France , vol. vi. p. 279 (1900). 
Bush with running roots; stem 3-5 feet high, very long, flattened prickles, 
almost straight on the stems and principal branches ; fine, straight, long, and often 
mixed with glandular aciculi on the flowering branches ; the latter short, stiff, or 
slightly flexible, pubescent. Leaflets 5, sessile, rounded oval, the upper ones acute, 
green on upper surface, whitish on under surface, slightly tomentose on either side, 
the dorsal nerve slightly glandular, almost simple teeth, crenate, mucronate ; 
stipules hairy on the upper surface, tomentose, slightly glandular on the under 
surface, edged with glands, with short lobes, pointed, almost straight. Flowers 
rather large, of a beautiful pink colour, with deeply cut petals ciliate at the base ; 
pedicels tomentose, studded with glands, inerme or with few prickles ; bracts oval, 
cuspidate or foliaceous, hairy on upper surface, tomentose on lower surface, ciliate- 
glandular, not reaching the middle of the peduncle ; the lateral peduncles have 
also above the base two small oval-lanceolate bracts ; peduncles 1-3 in. long, thickly 
covered, as are also the calyx-tube and the back of the sepals, with setaceous prickles 
with glands of a dusky red. Calyx-tube ovoid ; lobes with spatulate ends, almost 
as large as the corolla, 2 entire, 3 pinnatifid, with lateral divisions, lanceolate, denti- 
culate, tomentose inside and on the edges, turned back towards the inflorescence, 
later on spread out over the fruit and withered at maturity. Styles short, erect. 
Fruit ovoid or subglobose, frequently dying without coming to maturity. 
Rosa marcyana is another of the beautiful series of Char- 
bonnieres Roses. It grows in hedges and undergrowth and on the 
borders of the wood between Marcy l’Etoile and Mdginant, and from 
Tassin to Meginant (Rhone). The plant from which the drawing 
was made came from the Abbe Boullu’s type plant ; its characteristics 
have, however, become somewhat modified by cultivation. 
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