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ROSA parvifolia. 
Burgundy Rose. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 334. Diy. II. Rosx. 
ROSA. Supré vol. 1. fol. 46. 
Div. VI. Centifolie. Setigere, armis difformibus; bracteate. Foliola ob- 
longa vel ovata, rugosa. Discus incrassatus faucem claudens. Sepala 
(foliola calycina) composita. Lindley monogr. 60. ” 
R. parvifolia, nana, armis subqualibus, foliolis rigidis ovatis acutis argute 
serratis, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) ovatis. Lindley monogr. ‘70. n. 42. 
Rosa parvifolia. Ehrhart beyir, 6.97. Willd. sp. pl. 2.1078. Persoon syn. 
2.50. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Rosa remensis. Desfont. cat. 175, Decand. fl. franc. 4. 443. Mer. par. 
191. 
Rosa burgundiaca. Réssig rosen. t. 4. Gmel. bad. als. 2. 431. Brotero 
te lusit. 1. 389, vs 
lanta fusca compacta caesia: rami subglaucescentes, stricti, erecti, graciles, 
aculeis inequalibus tenuibus subfalcatis setis parce intermixtis armati. Folia 
surculorum adultiorum bis saltém internodiis longiora, ramulorum novellissi- 
simorum confertissimé aggregata; stipule lineares, subnude, glandulis ci- 
liate, lucidé virentes; petioli pilost, aculeolis paucis robustis subtds armati, 
glandulosi ; foliola 3-7, sepissime 5, parva, rigida, ovata, acuta, plana, 
subtilissime et simpliciter dentata dentibus hinc glandula donatis, supra 
saturate opaceque virentia rugosa atque nuda, subtds cinereo-pallentia va- 
ricoso-venosa costé media pilosd, par imum, cum paria trinis plura, ple- 
riumque exiguissimum. Flores solitarii, ramulis novellis exsuperati, ebrac- 
teati, purpuret, seriebus multiplicibus petalorum semper repleti; peduncu- 
lus depilis, setis paucis invalidis adspersus: calycis tubus ovatus; nudus ; 
foliola (sepala) ovata cum acumine, subsimplicia, concava, reflexa, pilosa 
glandulisque adspersa, plurimim breviora petalis: petala patentia, preter 
interiora partim germinibus provenientia arctissimeque imbricantia; styli 
pilosi, aliquantulum exserta, d pube sud invicém coherentes. Lindley loc. 
cit. (ex angl. versum). 
Through the ingenious and instructive Monograph of the 
Roses with which Mr. Lindley has just presented the pub- 
lic, the history of that intricate group has been freed by 
sound criticism from the obscurity and ambiguity which 
have hitherto perplexed the study of it, and its bounds 
largely extended by newly observed and curious species 
illustrated by original descriptions and admirably charac- 
teristic figures. 
The subject of this article is found under the section Cen- 
tifolie, a section named after its assumed type the Rosa cen- 
tifolia of Linneus, of which the Rosa provincialis of suc- 
