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following is the account given by Sir, James Smith of the 
species provincialis. Ve ee of 
“ Native-of the south of Europe, at least it:is so con- 
sidered, though a plant too generally cultivated for any 
“ thing to be averred on this subject. With us it is hardy, 
“flowering in June and July. Most of the varieties are 
‘increased by roots or layers, and remain tolerably distinct; 
“ the different forms of variety y are least permanent. Stems 
“usually 3 or 4 feet high, straight, very prickly. Leaflets — 
“5, of a rounded. bluntish figure, veiny and rugose. — S¢i- 
~ nulas linear-lanceolate, acute, undivided ; most entire in 
“their lower part. Flowers two or three, or more, at the 
““ top of each branch, large, delightfully fragrant, of that 
“peculiar bright crimson ‘hue, popularly termed a rose- 
“ colour, with broad brown stains on the backs of the outer 
“ petals, which are permanent in the otherwise white variety, 
“‘ represented in Miss Lawrance’s t. 4. In all our cultivated 
‘varieties the flowers are double, with slight remains of 
“ stamens or styles; so that the fruit never ripens. We have 
“‘ however seen, in the ample collection of roses at Messrs. 
“ Lee and Kennedy’s, perfectly single flowers of the Moss 
“Rose, which those experienced cultivators have proved 
-to be only a variety of the Common Provins. Rose. In- 
““ deed we have been told in Italy, that this variety loses 
“ its mossiness, almost immediately, in that climate.” 
How the Moss Rose has been proved to be a variety of 
‘the Common Proyins one, remains untold, The present 
single Moss variety, we know has not been produced in 
that state from séed ; but reduced to it from the double or 
rather full state (either accidentally or intentionally) by 
peculiar culture. Accordingly we find it to be barren, as. 
we should have expected from the mode by whicly that 
_ state had been induced; but which most probably it would 
not-have been, had it sprung up single from the seed, 
The only evidence (ve know of a mutual variation between 
the Moss and Common Rose, is the similarity of the two 
“tr alf points‘except the moss-like viscous efflorescence of the 
_first; a difference of such a nature as may be easily sup- 
posed incidental, and indeed is admitted to be so in one of 
.the varieties of another species of the genus. . 
Rossig, who has lately published a work on Roses, con- 
‘taining good coloured figures, says, that the Moss Rose js 
‘found on the Alps... Ane? satply : : 
