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Sweet Briar, the Mailjlcd Doubled Sweet Briar, the Red Doubie 

 Sweet Briar, the Royal Sweet ]3riar, and the Yellow Sweet Briar. 



The twentieth species, which is mostly denominated the Moss 

 Rose, from the moss-like pubescence on the calyx, has the stalks and 

 branches closely armed with brown spines: the peduncles and calyx 

 are covered with lono; hair-like moss: the flowers are of an eleoant 

 crimson colour, and have a most agreeable odour. It is known to 

 us only in its double slate, and the country lo which we are indebted 

 for it is not ascertained. 



The twenty-first, or IMusk Rose, rises with weak stalks to the 

 height of ten or twelve feet, covered with a smooth greenish bark, 

 and armed with short strong spines: the leaflets seven, light-green 

 and serrate: the flowers in large bunches, in form of umbels, at the 

 end of the branches, are white, and have a fine musky odour, ap- 

 pearing in July and August, and continuing in succession till the 

 frost stops them. The stalks are loo weak to support themselves. 

 There is a variety with double flowers. 



The editor of Miller's Dictionary considers the Evergreen Musk 

 Rose of Miller to be the same with this. 



The twenty- second species is a low shrub, with reddish-brown 

 slems, the lower half or thereabouts of which is covered with 

 straight awl-shaped slender white not pungent prickles; the upper 

 part is quite naked: the stipules ciliale-glandular at the edge: the 

 petioles hispid, and glandular: the leaflets commonly seven, smooth 

 on both sides, ovate, biserrale, ciliate, glandular: the peduncles 

 naked, unarmed: flowers solitaiy, red, middle-sized. It is a native 

 of the Alps, &c. flowering in June and July. 



The twenty-third has a height seldom exceeding three feet: the 

 flowers large in proportion to the plant, semidouble, with great 

 richness of colour (dark red) uniling a most delightful fragrance, 

 earning out in succession during the greater part of the year, only 

 more sparingly in the winter months: the segments of the calyx 

 leafy at the eml, one larger than the rest: the germs and peduncles 

 sometimes, but rarely, smooth. It is a native of China. 



