n6— ROSA CENTIFOLIA, var. MUSCOSA Seringe 
THE MOSS ROSE 
Rosa centifolia , var. muscosa : a typo recedit ramis dense aciculatis ; calycis 
tubo et lobis processis linearibus ; foliolis glandulosis, ad dorsum et marginem 
dense appendiculatis. 
R. centifolia , var. muscosa Seringe, M us. Helv. vol. ii. p. 19 (1818) ; in De 
Candolle, Prodr. vol. ii. p. 619 (1825). — Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abbild. Deutsch. 
Holzart, vol. i. p. 47, t. 39 (1825). 
R. muscosa Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8, vol. ii. No. 22 (1768). — Curtis in Bot. 
Mag. vol. i. t. 69 (1790). — Lawrance, Roses , t. 14 (1799). — Roessig, Die Rosen , 
No. 6 (1802-1820). — Thory, Prodr. Monogr. Ros. p. 77 (1820); in Redoute, Roses, 
vol. iii. p. 97, t. (1824). 
R. provincialis , var. ; muscosa Roessig, Die Rosen, No. 56 (1802-1820). — Bot. 
Reg. vol. i. t. 53 (1815); vol. ii. t. 102 (1816). 
R. centifolia , var. muscosa Lindley, Ros. Monogr. p. 64 (1820). — Crepin in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxxi. pt. 2, p. 73 (1892). 
R. gallica, var. muscosa Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. v. pt. 2, p. 354 {Tent. 
Ros. Monogr. p. 70 [1877]) (1878). — Dippel, Handb. Laubliolzk. vol. iii. p. 566 
(1893). — Koehne, Deutsche Dendrol. p. 282 (1893). — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. 
Hort. vol. iv. p. 1552 (1902). 
r R. gallica L., var. centifolia muscosa Bois, Atl. PI. Jar d. t. 86 (1896). — C. K. 
Schneider, III. Handbuch Laubliolzk. vol. i. p. 547 (1906). 
Stem tall and arching ; prickles scattered, stout, hooked, with copious irregular 
aciculi and glandular bristles between them. Leaflets usually 5, oblong, cuspidate, 
moderately large and moderately firm, glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent on 
the raised ribs and scattered over with glands beneath ; teeth rather double, gland- 
edged ; petioles pubescent and densely glandular ; stipules with free ovate tip. 
Flowers very double, pink or white, often several in a corymb ; pedicels densely 
aciculate and glandular. Calyx-tube globose, densely aciculate ; lobes copiously 
compound, covered on the back and edge with copious linear gland-edged mossy 
processes. Styles free, linear. Fruit not seen. 
The Moss Rose does not appear to have been known to Linnaeus 
or to any of the pre-Linnaean herbalists. The first illustration is 
certainly that in Miller’s 1 cones} It is very well drawn, and gives 
an excellent idea of the flower : 
“ Rosa rubra plena, spinosissima, pedunculo muse o so, Boer. Ind. alt. 2, p. 252. 
The most prickly double red Rose, with a mossy Footstalk, commonly called the 
Moss Provence Rose. 
1 P. 148, plate ccxxi. fig. 1 (1760). 
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