ADA ORD. XXVII. Senticose. ROSA CANINA. 
Class Icosandria. Ord. Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 631. 
Ess. Gen. Ch.  Petala..5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo 
coarctatus.. Sem. plurima, hispida, calycis interiori affixa. 
Sp. Ch. R. germinibus ovatis pedunculisque glabris, caule pe- 
tiolisque aculeatis. 
THIS small tree usually rises ten or twelve feet in height, 
dividing towards the top into many branches, covered with sisicoths 
bark, saul beset with alternate hooked prickles: the leaves. are 
pinnated, consisting of two or three pair of pinna or leafits, with 
an odd. one at the end ;. they are all of an oblong or oval shape, 
serrated, veined, pointed, growing close to the common. footstalk,. 
which is prickly, and at its base furnished with a sheathy expansion: 
fringed at the edges: the bractem are oval, fringed, and placed in. 
pairs at the peduncles, which are smooth: the flowers are large, 
terminal, two or three together, and ofa reddish or flesh-colour :, 
the calyx is pitcher-shaped at its base, fleshy, separated. above 
into five long expanding divisions, subdividing into smaller seg- 
ments: the corolla consists of five inversely heart-shaped petals: 
the filaments are numerous, slender, short, inserted in the calyx, 
and furnished with triangular anther: the germens are nume- 
rous, in the bottom of the calyx, supplied with an equal number 
of styles, which are villous, short, compressed in the neck of the 
calyx, inserted in the side of the germen, and terminated with 
obtuse stigmata: the fruit is a fleshy smooth oval berry, of a deep 
flesh colour, formed of the tubular part cf the calyx, and con- 
taining many long rough seeds. It is a native of Britain, com- 
monly growing in woods and hedges, and flowering in June. 
The flowers of this tree frequently make a conspicuous and 
beautiful appearance in the hedges, and though by some botanists 
they are said to be inodorous, yet their fragrance is often very 
perceptible. The fruit, called *heps or hips, has a sourish taste, 
