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stem of a Ircc will rise twelve or foiiilccn iVet high; ihoy are armed 

 with crookt'cl rccklish spines, nnA have small leaves, Avilh seven oval 

 acute Icariels, of a lucid green, and serrate: the leaves continue on 

 all the year: the dowers are small, single, white, and have a musky 

 odour. In their natural place of growth they continue in succession 

 great part of the 3xar, but their time of dowering in this climate is 

 June. It is a native of Gcrman3\ 



The seventeenth has the branches widi a great abundance of 

 prickles, which fall oil" on the slenis: I he fruits are large and pear- 

 shaped. It is a native ol" Austria and Italy. 



The eighteenth species has the young shoots covered with a pale 

 purplish bark, set with a nundier of small j)rickles like hairs: the 

 older branches have but few thorns: the I'ruit is very large: the 

 dower is thick and double as a red-rose, but so strong swelling in the 

 bud, that many of them break before they can be full blown; and 

 then they are of a pale red-rose colour, between a red and a damask? 

 v>ith a very thick broad hard undjone ol' short yellow threads in the 

 nnddle: the segments of the calyx arc (piite entire: the smell is 

 nearest a red rose. 



The ninelcenth has yellow hook(\l prickles on the stem, which is 

 •five or six feet high: the leaflets seven, very fragrant, elliptic or 

 sid)ovale, above smooth and wrinkled, underneath rust-coloured with 

 resinous atoms or jiiile dots: serratures ghuuiular: the petioles also 

 glandular and piickly: the peduncles muricate and in corymbs: 

 the calyx glandular: the j)clals rose-colour, white at the base: the 

 fruit scarlet, muricate, but sometimes smooth, farinaceous, in- 

 sipid. - ■ 



I'he cultivated plant grows larger and more erect: the leaves are 

 bigger an;l much sweeter than in the wild one, the rusty colour of 

 them disappears, and the whole puts on a more vigorous appearance: 

 the sweet scent is supposed to proct^cd from the gland. It is a Na- 

 tive of most parts of Europe. 



There are varieties willi double flowers: as the Common Double 

 Sweet Briar, the Mossy Double Sweet Hriar, the Evergreen Double 



