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ROSA CANINA. DOG ROSE, Or, HEP TREE. 
STNO NTMA. Cynoibatus. Pbarm. Loud. Rofa fylveflrls 
vulgaris, fiore odorato incarnate Bauh* Pin. p. 483. Rofa fyl- 
veftris inodorata, feu canina. Park. £ beat, p. 1017. Raii Hi/l. 
* 
. 1470. Synop. p. 454. Gerard. Ewac. p. 12 jo. Rofa fpinis 
aduncis, foliis feptenis, calycibus tomentoiis, fegmentis pinnatis 
& femipinnatis tubis brevifiimis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. 11 01. Rofa 
canina. Hudf. A fig. p. 219. Ligbtf. Scot. p. 262. Ed. 1789. 
Withering. Bot. Arr.p. 523. Cnrt. Flor. Lond. Flor. Dan. $$$. 
Clafs Icofandria. Ord. Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 631 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo 
coarcl:atus. Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori affixa. 
Sp. Cb. R. germinibus ovatis pedunculifque glabris, caule petiolif- 
que aculeatis. 
THIS fmall tree ufually rifes ten or twelve feet in height, dividing 
towards the top into many branches, covered with fmooth bark, and 
befet with alternate hooked prickles : the leaves are pinnated, con- 
lifting of two or three pair of pinnae or leafits, with an odd one at 
the end ; they are all of an oblong or oval fhape, ferrated, veined, 
pointed, growing clofe to the common fcotftalk, which is nrick 
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and at its bafe furnifhed with a fheathy expanfion fringed at the 
edges : the braclie 
fringed, and placed in pairs at the p 
duncles, which are fmooth : the flowers are large, terminal, two or 
three together, and of a reddifh or flefh-colour : the calyx is pitcher- 
fhaped at its bafe, flefhy, feparated above into five long expanding 
divifions, fubdividing into fmaller fegments : the corolla confifts of 
five inverfely heart-fhaped petals : the filaments are numerous, flender. 
No. 28. 5 D 
£h 
