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the " Coleur de Rose" with which I have attempted 

 slightly to tinge this chapter, has become proverbial 

 for that happy and exhilirating state of feeling, which 

 can see no imperfections, and trace no dark shadows 

 within the scope of its imaginings. 



" Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd, 

 Like the vase in which Roses have once been distill'd ; 

 You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, 

 But the scent of the Roses will hang round it still." 



With this sentiment of MOORE'S I pause on my 

 flowery excursion for I can gather no other flowers 

 on the same day with the Rose ! 



A condensed Synopsis of the British Species of tlie 

 Genus Rosa, may be useful as well as interesting, and 

 is here subjoined. 



ROSA. ROSE. Nat. Ord. Rosacece.. Icosandria Polyg. Linn. 

 Fruit of numerous dry hairy akenia or nuts, enclosed by but 

 merely attached to the inside of the fleshy tube of the calyx. 



I. Roses tcith shoots bearing setce, or glandular bristles. 



1. R. SABINI. Sabine's Rose. Prickles scattered, unequal 

 strait, very crowded together. Sepals somewhat pinnate. Fruit 

 globose, covered with setae. Flowers mostly white. Thickets 

 about forest ground, but rare. 



|3. Doniana. Leaves very hairy on both sides. Sepals almost 

 simple. Stem densely setose and prickly. Thickets in hilly spots, 

 rare. Flowers mottled with red. 



7. gracilis. With falcate prickles. Cumberland. 



(R. involuttty Smith, found in the Highlands, is probably a 

 mountain variety, smaller, with simple leafy sepals.) 



2. R. RUBELLA. Red-fruited Spinous Rose. Prickles few 

 nearly equal, uniform, slender ; setse very numerous. Leaflets 

 naked (larger than in R. spinosissimd). Fruit urn-shaped. On 

 the sea coast, but very rare. " Northumberland." A little north 

 of Aberystwith. Fruit pendulous, bright red, not pulpy. (Accord- 



