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ROS A cinnamomea.
Cinnamon Rose.
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1COSANDUIA Polygynia.
G en. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at
the orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Petals 5.
Seeds numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of the
calyx.
Spec. Char. Fruit globose, smooth as well as the
flower-stalks. Stem with occasional, small, twin
prickles, below the stipulas. Footstalks scarcely
prickly. Leaflets oblong, finely downy; glaucous
beneath.
Syn. Rosa cinnamomea. Linn. Sp. PI. 703. Ait.
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. 259. Retz. Prodr. Scand.
ed. 2. 120. Ger. em. 1268.
R. majalis. Retz. Obs.fasc. 3. 33. Herm. Diss. 8.
w E add this Rose to the catalogue of native English plants
on the authority of a specimen, gathered in the wood in Ake-
ton pasture near Pontefract, Yorkshire, some years since, by
R. A. Salisbury, Esq. It flowers in May. The above synonyms
are determined by authentic specimens. The fruit in
our plate is taken from a Swedish one. I f the flower be found
defective, it must be attributed to the drawing being made
from a dried specimen, which in this case was unavoidable.
For the accuracy of the rest we can vouch.
This species is known by its slender, straggling, red-brown
stems and branches ; elliptic-oblong, sharply serrated leaflets,
rather glaucous and downy beneath; downy footstalks, bearing
here and there a small prickle; globular germen; and long,
downy, rather leafy, calyx. A pair of small prickles usually
grow on the older brandies, just below where the leaves have
been. A very double variety is common in gardens, but we
have never met with the single kind. The reason of the name
is not apparent. Gerarde says the leaves smell of cinnamon.
The flowers surely do not.