Rosa.] ROSACE/E. 95 



10. Agrimonia. Linn. Agrimony. 



Calyx turbinate, covered with hooked bristles, 5-cleft, inferior. 

 Petals 5, inserted upon the calyx. Stamens 7 — '20. Fruit of 

 2, small, indehiscentco/wuZes, invested by the hardened calyx. — 

 Name ; corrupted from Argemone, given by the Greeks to a 

 plant supposed to cure the cataract in the eye, called ap^rjfxa. 



Dodecandria. Digynia. 



1. A. Eupatoria, Linn. Common Agrimony. Cauline leaves 

 interruptedly pinnate, terminal leaflet on a footstalk. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 217. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 346. E. Bot. t. 1335. 



Borders of fields, waste places, and road-sides. Fl. June, July. %. 

 — Two feet high. Leaflets deeply serrated ; intermediate smaller 

 ones three to five-cleft. Flowers yellow, on a long simple or branched 

 spike, with a trifid bractea at their base. — Doctor Hooker remarks 

 that as the number of stamens are so variable in this plant, it would 

 be better, perhaps, to place the Genus with its affinities in Ico- 

 sandria. 



§ 4. Rosece. De Cand. 

 11. Rosa. Linn. Rose. 



Calyx urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating 

 in 5 segments. Petals 5. Pericarps (or Carpels) numerous, 

 bristly, fixed to the inside of the calyx. — Name, from the 

 Celtic Rhos, (from rhodd, red) ; whence also the Greek name 

 for a rose, YoBov, was probably derived. 



Icosandria. Polygynia. 



* Shoots setigerous, prickles scarcely curved. 



1. Bracteas large. 



1. R. Dicksoni, Lindl. Dickson's Rose. Shoots setigerous; 

 prickles scattered, slender, subulate ; leaflets oval, coarsely and 

 irregularly serrated, hoary, sparingly glandulose beneath ; sepals 

 long, simple ; fruit ovato-urceolate. Br. Fl. 1. p. 224. Borr. 

 in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2707. — R. Dicksoniana, Lindl. Syn. 



Said to have been found in Ireland by Mr. J. Drummond. Fl. 

 June. T? . — As this rose was not in the collection of roses found by 

 Mr. Drummond in the south of Ireland, of which he sent me plants a 

 year or two before he left the country for Swan River, I strongly sus- 

 pect it was never found by him in a wild state. All that I know of 

 the history of it is, that it was sent by the late Mr. James Lee, of the 

 Hammersmith Nursery, among a collection purchased by the Dublin 

 Society, for their garden at Glasnevin, in 1797, and marked as the 

 single variety of R. villosa, under which name I also had it from them 

 for the College Botanic Garden in 1808, and have cultivated it ever 

 since. Mr. Drummond also got it a few years afterwards, in a collec- 



