Rose with round seed-buds and hispid peduncles: petioles prickly:
the leaflets are oblong, sharp-pointed, sawed, and shining: flowers
flesh-coloured, and unopened in the middle: stem smooth: the spines
of the branches are scattered and opposite.
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In this double-flowered variety of the Great Burnet-leaved Carolina Rose
there is a variation much more powerful than many of the new species of
the present day could lay claim to, as nearly one half of the plant from
which our figure was made, in the garden of the Hon. W. Irby, was so
different both in shape and size, that they might easily pass for
distinct species; and had we not found them both on one plant, we should
have been inclined to consider them as such. A separate figure will
therefore be given of such a strong-marked difference of character, that
will probably illustrate the distinction actually existing between
varieties and species.
[Illustration]
ROSA semperflorens, _simplex_.
_Single Ever-blooming Rose._