ROSA spinosissima, _rubra_; _Var. flore pleno_. _Red Thorny Rose; Double-flowered Variety._ CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Rosa germinibus sub-globosis, glabris: pedunculis hispidis: floribus semi-duplicibus, incarnatis: foliis patentibus: foliolis ovatis, costatis, crenatis: caule et petiolis aculeatissimis. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with nearly round seed-buds, smooth. Peduncles hispid. Flowers semi-double, and flesh-coloured. Leaves spreading. Leaflets ovate, ribbed, and notched at the edges. Stem and petioles very prickly. * * * * * This fine semi-double Rose is generally known by the appellation of the Double Red Scotch. It is evidently a thorny Rose, and powerfully resembles the _spinosissima_ in most particulars except the flowers, whose pale delicate character reminds us so much of the _Indica_, that, were a flower detached from the plant, and compared with that ever-blooming species in a confined mode of culture, the resemblance would be found considerable. How or by whom it was first cultivated, we have not been able to learn with any degree of certainty: it must, therefore, with several other unavoidable deficiencies of the same description, pass on till the conclusion of the work, when we shall be better enabled to fill up these little chasms--at the same time that we give a Dissertation on the Genus. Our figure was made from fine plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames. [Illustration] ROSA Indica rubra. _Red Indian Rose._ CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Rosa germinibus subrotundis, pedunculisque leviter hispidis, glabris, et nitidis: floribus rubris, magnis, odoratis: foliis glabris, nitidis, et atro-purpureo-viridibus: petiolis aculeatis: foliolis oblongis, et margine serratis: caule viridi, glabro, ad basin spinis rubris. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with roundish seed-buds, and peduncles slightly hispid, smooth, and shining: flowers red, large, and sweet-scented: leaves smooth, shining, and of a dark purply green colour: petioles prickly: leaflets oblong, and sawed at the edges: stem green, smooth, with red thorns on the lower part. * * * * *