ROSA ALBA, var. RUBICUNDA 
is sometimes known as Rose Celeste, but must not be confused with 
the Rose Celestial which resembles the Manetti Rose in texture, colour, 
and form of flower, but has no other point of resemblance. 
The plate given in the Botanical Magazine 1 is not Millers 
Rosa incarnata, but is a variety of Rosa gallica L., which is not un- 
common in France and has been collected by me at Charbonnieres 
(Rhone) growing in company with Rosa austriaca Crantz, Rosa cordata 
Cariot, Rosa marcyana Boullu, and many other interesting gallica 
forms and hybrids. Sir J. D. Hooker was evidently misled by 
Boreau’s Flore du Centre de la France , 2 in which the name Rosa 
incarnata Mill. is applied to this form. In all probability Boreau 
had no opportunity of seeing Miller’s type-specimen, and this omission 
led him into the error which has misled subsequent writers. 
Many of the hybrids of Rosa alba formerly in cultivation are now 
rarely met with. They can readily be recognized by their glaucous 
foliage and blunt leaflets, and by a fragrance peculiarly their own 
which exists in a greater or less degree in all the hybrids. These 
characteristics are well marked in the Maiden’s Blush Rose. Three 
forms of Rosa alba, var. rubicunda, are figured by Andrews : Bella 
Donna (plate 1 6), Bella Donna, var. Jlore minore (plate 17), and 
erubescens (plate 18). 
1 T. 7035 (1889). 2 Ed. 3, vol. ii. p. 218 (1857). 
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