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HOSE. 
“ Morestellus cites an epitaph, in which 
Publia Cornelia Anna declares that she had 
resolved not to survive her husband in deso¬ 
late widowhood, but had voluntarily shut her¬ 
self up in his sepulchre, still to remain with 
him with whom she had lived twenty years 
in peace and happiness : and then orders her 
freed-men and freed-women to adorn the se¬ 
pulchre with roses. 
We have seen, within these few years, the 
body of a child carried to a country church 
for burial, by young girls dressed in white, 
each carrying a rose in her hand. 
The rose is of the class Icosandria, and 
order Polygynia. 
