Identifier: rosarummonograph01lind (find matches)
Title: Rosarum monographia, or, A botanical history of roses : to which is added an appendix, for the use of cultivators, in which the most remarkable garden varieties are systematically arranged, with nineteen plates
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Subjects: Roses
Publisher: London : Printed for James Ridgeway ...
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ale green,covered all over with small, weak, nearly equal seta%except at the extremities, which are iinarmeci, like thevery numerous, slender branchlets. Leaflets 9-11,roundish, of a firm texture, the lowest pair smaller thanthe rest, glaucous. Flowers bright red. Frt:it beforematurity speckled with little pale spots. Otherwisewith the characters of li. rubella. Notwithstanding the close resemblance betweenthis and the foregoing, I feel no hesitation in distin-guishing them. R. rubella has drooping very weakbranches, surculi bending at the end, and hispid totheir extreme points; its leaves are green, fruit small,ovaria from 12 to 18, pericarps ovate and somewhatpointed. 7?. stricta, on the contrary, has nearly erectbranches and surculi and branchlets without any his-pidity: its leaves are somewhat glaucous, fruit largeand, before ripeness, covered with little pale blotches;the ovaries are from 25 to 35, and the ))ericarps areround, large, and much more hairy. Rubella frequently JaJ;:j
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