Rose with roundish seed-buds, small-flowered, flesh-coloured, and
equal. The leaflets are egg-shaped, villose beneath, with sawed
glandular margins. The stem and petioles are prickly: the prickles
of the branches are scattered and straight.
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This variety was introduced from France by Mr. Williams, a nurseryman
residing near Paris. It is of a compound character; the leaves and the
colour of the flowers resembling the _Rosa nana_, but in point of size
much more like the _nana minor_, or Pompone Rose; yet differing again
from that, in the great regularity of the petals--(whence the name
_æqualiflora_)--a trivial distinction, and yet the most prominent
feature allowed us by way of discrimination. Nor should we have adopted
it, had we not seen at the nursery of Messrs. Colville a number of
plants of exactly the same uniform description; which induced us to
regard it as a permanent character. If it should prove so (which time
alone can ascertain), the name will be sufficiently discriminative: but
in case the flowers should enlarge, that circumstance might probably
disorganize the symmetry of the petals, and it would then have no
distinguishing mark to separate it from the de Meaux; between which and
the Pompone Rose it is certainly a variety. But whilst so many
variations are allowed among the larger Roses, the lesser ones (but not
less estimated) may with propriety claim an equal right to be admitted,
particularly as they are so few, compared with those of larger
magnitude.
[Illustration]
ROSA Carolina, _pimpinellæfolia_.
_Great Burnet-leaved Carolina Rose._