ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 387 



R. sylvestris foliis odoratis. Bauh. Pin. 483. Dod, Pempt, 187 



R. sylvestris odora. Raii Sy?i. 454. Ger. Em. 1269,/. 1. 

 R. sylvestris odorata, incavnato flore. Besl. Hort. Eiist. vern ore! fi 

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R. foliis odovatis, Eglentina dicta. Bauh. Hist. v.2.4].f. 



In bushy places on a dry gravelly or chalky soil ; sometimes on 

 sandy islands in small rivers, as between Norwich and Yarmouth, 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stem bushy, erect, 4 or .5 feet high, with numerous, stout, compact, 

 smooth, green branches, reddish when young. Prickles of two 

 kinds 3 the larger often in pairs as well as scattered, hooked, 

 sharp, conical, compressed, light brown, with a very broad 

 base J smaller chiefly interspersed among the former, in great 

 numbers, on the strong radical shoots, being much smaller and 

 straighter, but still ditierent from bristles, and scarcely observ- 

 able on the flowering branches. Leajlets 5 or 7, more elliptical 

 than ovate, rather acute, of a bright pleasant green, bordered 

 with double glandular serratures ; the upper surface minutely 

 hairy ; under covered with reddish viscid glands, from which prin- 

 cipally exhales that peculiar fragrant scent, compared to apples, 

 but much more generally agreeable. For the sake of this scent 

 the plant is often forced, and is very grateful, without being 

 oppressive, in close apartments ; but it is most delightful in 

 hedges and shrubberies. Footstalks downy, glandular, with se- 

 veral hooked prickles, and, I think, some bristles. Siipulas 

 linear-lanceolate, pointed, closely and uniformly fringed with 

 glands, such as are often found likewise on their under side 

 near the extremity ; the upper ones changing to ovate, pointed 

 bracteas. Flower-stalks generally from I to 3, sometimes much 

 more numerous, clotlied with long, slender, unequal, glandu- 

 lar bristles, some of which, as Mr. Woods remarks, assume the 

 form of slender curved prickles, destitute of glands. Tube of 

 the ca/i/x elliptical, tinged with red, irregularly bristly 5 segments 

 of the limb more copiously pinnate than is shown in Engl, Bat., 

 their divisions distantly toothed and glandular. Petals bright 

 pink. Fruit scarlet, mealy and insipid, more or less bristly, espe- 

 cially about the base, its form obovate, occasionally nearly ellip- 

 tical, crowned with the withered segments of the calyx, which 

 however are partly deciduous. Mr. Woods observes that the 

 earliest hip is always obovate, though some of the later ones 

 may assume an elliptical shape. 



Mr. Woods's variety /3, with curved but not hooked prickles, and 

 smaller, sometimes rounder, leaflets, agrees very nearly with 

 Mr. Lindley's ^ rotuncUfolia, first published by Ran, which 

 I have from Nuremberg. The tube of the calyx, even in 

 Mr. Woods's own specimens, appears to me as bristly at the 

 base as in our common Sweet Briar. 

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