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ROSA provincialis. 8. muscosa ; fi. simpl. 
Single-flowered Moss-Provins Rose. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA, 
‘ROSA. Supra fol. 46. 
R. provincialis, fructibus subrotundis, pedunculis petiolisque hispidis, 
aculeis ramorum sparsis, subreflexis, foliolis ovatis subtis villosis ; ser- 
raturis glandulosis. Hort. Kew. 2. 204. . 
Rosa provincialis, Du Roi harbk. 2. 349. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1070. arb. 
314. Mill. dict. ed.8.n.18. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.3. 261. Smith in 
Rees’s Cyclop. sub Rosa n. 26. 
‘R. burgundiaca; provincialis. Persoon. syn. 2. 48. 
R. provincialis major, fl. pl. ruberrimo. Boérh. ind. alt. 2. 252. 
Common Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t, 8. 
Scarlet Provins Rose. Miss Lawr.t. 22. 
Blush Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 1.. 
White Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 4. 
Childing’s Provins Rose. Miss Lawr.t. 48. | 
‘Blandford or Portugal Rose. Miss Lawr. t..21. 
(8) Calyx pedunculi petioli ramulique glanduloso-viscosi. 
Rosa muscosa. Mill. dict. ed. 8.n. 22. Du Roi harbk. 2.368. Hort. 
Kew. 2. 207. ed, 2. 3. 264.  Brotero fi. lusit. 345.  Rossig rosen. 
cah, 2. t. 6. ; 
R. provincialis spinosissima, pedunculo muscoso. Cat. pl. hort. londin. 
(A. D. 1730) 66. t. 18. : 
-R. rubra pl. spinosissima, pedunculo muscoso. Mill. ic. 148. t. 221. f. 
1. Boerh. ind. alt. 2. 252. ; 
Double Moss Provins Rose. Curtis’s mag. 69. Miss Lawr. ros. 14. 
‘Double white Moss Provins Rose. 
Single red Moss Provins Rose. Supra. 
(y) Folia floresque duplo minores. 
Rose de Meaux. Miss Lawr.t. 31. 
Pompone Rose. Curtis's mag. 407. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 50. 
Rose de Rheims. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 71. 
To which are most akin; Rose St. Francis, Miss Lawr. ros. t. 88. - 
Shailer’s Rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 76. 
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In most of the late systematic enumerations of plants, the 
“Moss Rose stands recorded as a separate species, by the title 
of muscosa. Butin the more recent account of the genus by 
“Sir James Smith, we find it merged as a variety in pro- 
“wincialis. 'That-it is one either of that or centifolia, is an 
opinion that dates from the first mention of the plant. The - 
