ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 455 
S. Leaves interruptedly winged : leafits egg-shaped, doubly Ulma’tia, 
serrated, hoary underneath : flowers in tufts. 
Curt. 340-Ludw. 23-Fl. dan. 547-Blackw. 465—-Kniph, 1 
—Clus. ii. 198. 1-—Dod. 57-Ger. em. 1043-—Park, 592. 1 | 
—Pet. Tie 8-H, OXs ix. 20; row is 1. Jig. 3d.-Ger. 886—~ 
Ff. B. iii. 488, 2. 
Stem angular, reddish. Leaves bright green above, white 
‘underneath, irregularly serrated ; the terminating leafit divided 
into 3 segments. Flowers yellowish white, Ca/. segments and 
petals sometimes 4, Capsules 5 to 8, but mostly 6, twisted spi- 
“rally together. 
Common Me adowsweet, Queen of the ce Moist m 
dows, and banks of rivers. P. June, July” 
POLYGYNIA. 
RO'’SA. Petal 5: Cal. urn-shaped, 5-cleft, fleshy, 
contracted at the neck so as to form at length 
a coloured berry of 1 cell, opening at the 
top; seeds many, hispid, dispersed in the pulp. 
(4) Germens more or less globular. 
R. Germens and fruit-stalks smooth: stem and leaf-stalks arven’sis. 
prickly: flowers in tu 
ya bot. 188—Wale. _¥, BB il. 44, ¥é 
Leaves simply serrated. Fruit-stalks beset more or less with 
hairs terminated by globular nn not Ons as ina deog 
nor rising exactly from the same point as in an umbel; some- 
times solitary. Prickles bowed downwa rd. Blasstadh white. Styles 
as soon as they have passed through the neck of the calyx, com- 
ps cted i os a cylinder resembling a single style, serge bya 
ob composed of the summits. s circumstance will alone 
distinguish it from the other species. Fruit globular, red. St. 
pep cmb Dogs Rose. Corn Rose. Hed. and, heaths. 
[ This is the most commgn rose in the west of orkshire, and — 
about Manchester. Have not seen it within 50 miles . Dar- 
lington, Mr. Rosson. } S. July. 
Var. 2. Hups.—Wild Dog Rose, with only 1 flower. Ray 
ya: indic. Between mapas and Lovie and Bishop’s Wood, :é. 
are ssf fond of them. ti inn.—When a es oom and enlarged by cultiva- 
tion, it is a beautiful addition to the ean gard 
. "The flowers infused in boiling water, he) it a sees flavour, ‘ge 
rises in distillation. Sheep and swine eat it. Goats are extremely fo 
of it. Cows and Te refuse it. Sphi nx ocellata, aad Filipendaa fed 
on both species. Lin 
