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APPENDIX.
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Rosa damascena.
Fringed.
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Rosa alba.
Great maiden's blush.
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[Within the description of Rosa multiflora...]
R. Grevillii, known also under the name of R. Roxburghii, is a weak variety.
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...Nevertheless, by the persuasion of some of my friends, I have been induced to alter my original intention, and to add a sketch of a methodical arrangement of the chief remarkable varieties, for the use of florists, till Mr. Sabine's more extensive observations shall appear...
Rosa centifolia.
Juno.
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Appendix.
...Nevertheless, by the persuasion of some of my friends, I have been induced to alter my original intention, and to add a sketch of a methodical arrangement of the chief remarkable varieties, for the use of florists, till Mr. Sabine's more extensive observations shall appear...
Rosa gallica.
Aimable beauté.
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...Nevertheless, by the persuasion of some of my friends, I have been induced to alter my original intention, and to add a sketch of a methodical arrangement of the chief remarkable varieties, for the use of florists, till Mr. Sabine's more extensive observations shall appear...
Rosa damascena.
Lesser Belgic.
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Rosa centifolia.
Lurid.
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ROSA bracteata.
R. foliolis oblongis obtusis glaberrimis, bracteis appressis pectinatis.
R. bracteata Wendl. obs. p. 50. hort. herrenhus. 7. t. 22. Vent. cels. t. 28. Redout. ros. l. 35. t. 6.
R. lucida Lawr. ros. t. 84.
R. Macartnea Dumont-Cours. bot. cult. fide Redouté.
β scabricaulis, ramis setigeris, aculeis minoribus rectiusculis.
R. bracteata Mönch meth. suppl. 290. Jacq. fragm. 30. t. 34. f. 2. Curt. mag. 1377. Smith in Rees in l.
Hab. in Bootan, Roxb; β in Chinæ provinciâ Tchetchiang, Staunton. (v. v. c. et s. sp. herb. Banks.)
A compact dark green shrub. Branches erect, stout, downy; prickles hooked, very strong, placed by pairs under the stipula, somewhat downy. Stipulæ nearly distinct, pilose, pectinate: segments capillary, the uppermost sometimes dilated and extending into a small pinnate leaf; petioles almost naked, with a few small, strong, hooked prickles; leaflets 5-9, crenate, obovate, flat, shining, blunt, naked on both sides, dark green above, paler beneath; their veins inconspicuous. Flowers showy, pure white, solitary, nearly sessile in the midst of several ovate, imbricated, downy bracteas, finely pectinate at the edge; tube of the calyx and sepals, which are nearly simple, woolly on the outside; petals large, obovate ; disk much thickened, nearly flat; stamens 350–400; ovaria 140-170; styles distinct, naked. Fruit spherical, orange red, covered all over with woolliness; pericarps brownish, wrinkled, immersed in the unusually copious hairs of the receptacle.
This plant, although a native of China and the northern provinces of India, is nevertheless tolerably hardy in our gardens, producing its fine milk-white flowers in profusion during the greater part of the summer. For ripe fruit I am indebted to Mr. Lyell.
For the present I have thought it better not to consider var. β as a distinct species; but it is probable that, by future observation, its characters may be found sufficient to entitle it to a place by itself. In general appearance, it is similar to the plant described and figured by Wendland; yet when the two grow side by side, their aspect presents several marks of difference. The variety β is much less than the other; it forms a more compact bush; the prickles are nearly straight, not strong and hooked; the stem is covered with setae, of which there are no traces on the other. This last character is of the most importance, because when setæ are produced accidentally, they usually are occasioned by excessive luxuriance, and therefore ought to be found on the stronger plant of the two, and not on the weaker, as is the case here. I am not disposed to lay much stress upon their different habitats; because, as I have already observed, it is probable that the present group extends across the continent of Asia in certain latitudes.
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ROSA Lawranceana..R. semperflorens minima Sims. bot. mag. n. 1762. R. pusilla Mauritius cat. p. 15?. R. Lawranceana sweet! hort. sub. lond.....A very low, compact, little shrub, rarely exceeding a foot in height. the prickles are large, stout, and nearly straight. Leaflets ovate, acute, flat, very finely toothed. Petals small, pale-blush, pointed: germens 7-8. Otherwise with the characteristics of ROSA semperflorens, from which I nevertheless have no hesitation in separating it. The difference in mumber of germens in this division appears constant, and therefore important. Mr. Sweet introduced it from the Mauritius (Isle of France), some years ago, and it may be ROSA pusilla of the Catalogue of Botanic Garden there. China is probably its native country, as it approaches so very nearly to ROSA semperflorens.
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Rosa gallica.
Officinal.
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