cellent {weet fmell, more pleafant than thofe of the Eglantine, © 
miftook the Auftrian Rofe for the Sweet-Briar, and called it — 
in confequence Rosa eglanteria ; a miftake that led to great — 
confufion, and to the application of another name, that of — 
rubiginofa to the Sweet-Briar. This name has been unfor- — 
tunately generally retained, though, as the original miftake has _ 
been fince corrected by adopting the appellation of Jutea for 
the Auftrian plant, that of eg/anterta ought to have been reftored _ 
to the Sweet-Briar, to which it originally belonged, and was 
meant by Linnaus himfelf to have been continued, as his — 
fynonyms evidently fhew. 
~ Our friend, Dr, Arzerrus, in a moft elaborate, accurate, 
and learned monograph on the Swedifh Rofes*, publifhing at 
Upfal, has made this reftoration; and we regret that Dr, — 
Situ has not done the fame in. his Flora Britannica. 
The Red and Yellow Auftrian Rofe is a beautiful fhrub, 
quite hardy, and well deferving a place in all our gardens, 
where indeed it is almoft univerfally to be met with, having 
been cultivated by old Parkinson above a hundred and fixty 
years ago, who fagacioufly confidered it as only a, variety of 
lutea, . : ; 
* Vide Annals of Botany, v. 2. p. 213. 
