not concern us now. Rather, we are interested in two old forms--the old Musk rose which figured so prominently in the creation of the Noisette roses and the Tea-Noisette roses, and has carried on into modern rose life, and Brown's Musk rose (R. Brunoni).

    R. moschata, the old Musk rose, has 5 to 7 long, green, oblong, acute leaflets, quite firm, glabrous on the upper surface and pubescent on the midrib beneath, with small, curved prickles on the petiole. There are small lanceolate tips on the dentate (not laciniate) stipule and one infrastipular prickle, with other prickles scattered on the stalk. Long, ovate-lanceolate sepals, slightly compounded and smooth, decorate the white blooms, many in a compound corymb. From a distinctive fragrance comes the name "Musk" rose.
     R. Brunoni, Brown's Musk rose, is the other old form. It differs in having pubescence on the under surface of the leaflets and on the petiole, along with the small prickles. It might be well to remark that authorities are at variance about the discrimination between these two Musk roses. We have followed Miss Willmott and Rehder.
     R. anemoneflora, a rose brought from China nearly a hundred years ago by Robert Fortune, bears many resemblances to R. moschata. It has 3 to 5 narrow, acuminate, finely serrate leaflets (mostly 3), glabrous above, glaucous beneath; small pinkish blooms, with outer petals round and inner petals narrow and ragged, and pistils united in a column. Inflorescence is in a corymb.

     Here we conclude the group of Synstylæ roses.

     We have three climbing roses with styles included within the calyx-tube, stigmas closing the aperture, in Banksia roses, Bracteata, and Laevigata (Cherokee) roses. All have free stipules.

     R. Banksia has shiny leaflets, free linear stipules on stalks almost thornless; the flowers are sweet, flowering in an umbel on smooth pedicels.
     R. lævigata has 3 leaflets, shining and glabrous; free stipules on stalks with scattered prickles; copious aciculi on the flowering shoots and on the pedicels of large, single, white blooms usually solitary.
     R. Fortuneana, with its large, double white blooms, is a cross of the two above. It was introduced from China by Fortune.
     R. bracteata has free stipules, pectinate and margined, with glands having infrastipular prickles, in pairs. The distinguishing feature, however, is a growth of imbricated bracts on the very short peduncles of the many solitary white flowers, with a halo of stamens surrounding the disc, and with sepals and calyx--tube tomentose. Bracteata roses bloom all summer. (An examination of the bracts on the rose Microphylla alba odorata suggests that R. bracteata enters here.)

INDICÆ ROSES

     The group of Chinese roses called Indicae includes the Tea rose (R. odorata); two China roses (R. indica and R. semperflorens); the Bourbon rose (R. borbonica); the Noisette rose (R. Noisettiana), and the Boursault rose (R. Lheritierana). For our

own assistance, we include here a group called Hybrid China, lost commercially but found in old gardens.

     R. odorata, the Tea rose, has uniform prickles and glabrous evergreen leaves, as do the China roses. The Tea has 5 to 7 leaflets, sharply serrate, with stipules adnate and with few, if any, glands on the auricles. Sepals are usually entire. The calyx-tube and fruit are globose or depressed-globose. Plants grow taller and are more inclined to climb than the China roses. The very fragrant blooms are solitary or in two's or three's on peduncles often glandular, and are produced freely. The original importations were double forms with both pink and yellow flowers. Many varieties have been developed.
     R. indica, Old Blush China, Pink Daily, has 3 to 5 leaflets, simply serrate, with adnate stipules, the small ovate free tips having ciliate glands. The moder-ately tall, arching stalk. with glaucous green bark, has uniform red, hooked prickles. Sepals are long, pointed, usually pinnate. Hips are ovoid, red, smooth when ripe. Flowers are double, rather irregularly cupped, pink, slightly fragrant, 1 to 5 in a corymb. It is a constant bloomer.
     R. semperflorens, the red China, Sanguinea, has more slender stalks and branches, slimmer red prickles, darker wood and foliage; leaflets 5 to 7, tinted with purple. Flowers are double, more neatly cupped, often solitary, of a deep rich crimson.

     These three China roses have been crossed and mixed quite terribly, but the roses properly called Chinas have definite checks with R. indica and R. semperflorens, as have the Teas with R. odorata. Certain differences to be noted are in fragrance, in foliage, and in hips. The hips of China roses are never depressed, are often variable, and are more or less sloping into the peduncle, while the hips of Tea roses are brusquely globe-shaped at the base, glabrous and glaucous, on a thicker peduncle, often jointed, and itself glabrous or a little glandulous. 43looms of China roses are usually quite upright, while Tea roses often nod (are cernuous).

     R. borbonica, the Bourbon rose, has usually a few aciculi mixed among its prickles, and ciliated glands on the stipule and bracts. Leaflets are bright green, somewhat glossy, smooth above, obscurely pubescent beneath, leathery in feeling, often wavy on the edges. Glands often show up on the peduncle and backs of sepals which are likely to be pinnatifid. Flowers are from double to full, one or a few in a corymb. Bourbons are abundant bloomers, especially in spring and autumn.
     R. Noisettiana, the charming Noisette rose, of which there are several varieties surviving, is a cross of R. indica and the Musk rose. Pistils protrude in the way of the Musk, but styles are free in the way of the China. Noisettes may be bush or climbing roses, with stout, uniform hooked prickles; 5 to 7 oblong, acute leaflets, smooth above and slightly pubescent beneath; narrow adnate stipules with small ovate free tips. Flowers are of medium size, double, many in a compound corymb. The immensely clustering bloom and the "paint-brush" pistils are distinguishing features. A red one called Fellemberg is believed by some authorities to be a cross of China with Multiflora. It does not have the