126 
GRACES. 
HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE. 
This tree bears a very double fine flower, 
of a deep crimson colour; its perfume, how¬ 
ever, is weak. 
It is mentioned by Pliny as growing 
around Campania, in Italy, and in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Philippi, in Greece, and its 
flowers are so double that they have a hun¬ 
dred leaves. This rose does not, however, 
grow there naturally, but near to Mount 
Pangseus, and when transplanted from thence 
to Philippi, they yield finer flowers than on 
their native mountain. It is recorded, that 
when the Graces accompany Venus and her 
ministering Cupids, they are crowned with 
myrtle: and when they follow the Muses they 
are crowned with wreaths of ^the hundred¬ 
leaved rose. , 
