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The sixth species lias been confoiinded wiih what is coinnionly 

 called ihe Scotch Rose; and some think it is not distinct fVoni that. 

 In the garden plant, according to Pallas, there are larger and seta- 

 ceous prickles intermixed, and nine leatlcts, tlu- lower ones smaller. 

 The flowers are white, and the segments of the calyx entire. 



And the Siberian shrub is very elegant, a foot and half or at 

 most two feet in height; the trunk thorny all over, the thickness of 

 the little finger, very much branched, the branches collected into an 

 ovate form: the spines on the trunk and branches very frequent, 

 bristle-shaped, transverse or reclining, gray: the leaves very small, 

 on red petioles, sometimes smooth, sometimes with small prickles on 

 them: the stipules very narrow with wider earkts, external and ser- 

 rate: the leaflets commonly seven, but somclimcs nine or five, the 

 size of the little finger nail, oval, cut round, sharply double-serrate, 

 stiffish, rugged, more or less reluse, on some shrubs rather acute: 

 the peduncles sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, with a ternate 

 and simple leaf, almost to the iiower: the fruit globose, smooth, and 

 when ripe black, dry and insipid, being crowned with the segments 

 of the calyx. It is a native of the South of Europe, as well as Asia, 

 flowering here in May ami June. 



The seventh has its stems about two feet high, upright, much 

 branched, with numerous straight, unecjual, very slender needle-like 

 prickles, on the young branches, wliich often disappear from the old 

 ones: the leaflets seven or nine, small, roundish, blunt, serrate, 

 smooth, sessile: their common petiole is sometimes prickly: the pe- 

 duncles solitary, one-flowered, smooth, or very seldom prickly: the 

 stipules small, halbert-shaped, toothed: the tube of the calyx almost 

 hcinispherical, smooth: the segments are entire: the petals white or 

 cream-coloured, yellow at the base, delicately fragrant, sometimes 

 striped with red: the fruit globose, deep reed, black when (luile rij)e, 

 smooth, but sometimes somewhat prickly. It is a native of most 

 parts of Europe. 



Tliere are several varieties, as the Striped-flowered, or with va- 

 riegated flowers, red striped with white. 



The lied Scotch Rose, which seldom rises more than a foot high: 



