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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 
spinosis'sima. R. Germens and fruit-stalks smooth : stem and leaf-stalks 
villo’sa. 
fully set with straight prickles: leafits circular, 
smooth. 
E. bot. 187-FI. dan. 398—Ger. 1088-F. B. ii. 41. 1-Park, 
1018. 8—Clus. 1.116. 1-Dod. 187—Ger. em. 1270.3-F.B. 
ii. 40. 2. 
Packs awl-shaped, straight, horizontal, Pp) thickly an 
une Fruit-st. with or without prickles. Ca/. leaves entire. 
Livy. “Leake stellt not iy hal Leafs very small, roundish, 
sitting. Leaf- scales small, BS geet rag toothed. Woopw. 
Bhoss. white, or cream-coloured, sometimes red. Licntr. Prickles 
very unequal in size, some flat, others like needles. The R. spi- 
nosissima, and the R. pi mpinellifolia of Linnzus, we are now 
assured, are the same plant. 
Burnet Rose. Pi mperuel ae. Heaths and sandy places. 
edges near Yarmouth, frequent. Mr. Woonwarp.—Perran 
wns, Cornwall. Mr. Wa TT. —Hedges and ditch banks pes: 
Worcester. Dr. Sroxes. Frequent in the sandy country about 
Bewdley. ] P. June, July. 
Var. 2. — red, striped with white, Srspatp. Licutr. 
Ciphian Ro 
Vat«3: Fruita prickly ; ; flowers cream-colour, aa 
to white. 
Specimen from Lanscale Haws, Lancashire; sent by 
Atkinson, hs informs me that it covers several acres of ae 
to the exclusion of every other vegetable.* 
R. Germens and fruit-stalks hispid: Rieti with scattered 
prickles : leaf-stalks prickly ; leaves cottony. 
E, bot. oe B. ii. 38. 1-Park. par. 419. 7. 
Stem smooth, 2 or 4 prickles near together below the knots, 
Leaves blunt. Pak wpe Linn. Frait-stalks, pine leaf-stalks, 
ae of the /eaf-scales, and sertatures of the /eafits beset with 
hairs of various lengths, terminated by a ae Leafits 6, with 
an odd one, egg-spear-shaped, more or less pointed. Petals 
longer than the calyx. Fruit not seayy hispid. Mr. Woopw. 
Leaves — serrated. St. Leaves cottony on both sides. 
Apple Rose. Mountainous hedges and shady places in the 
northern counties. [Grass Wood, near Kabwasys Yorkshire, Curr. 
T fruit is eaten by children; it has a grateful sub-acid Beate. 
The juic ¢ of i it, diluted with erp dyes silk and muslin of a peach- 
eolour; and with the additi = um a deep violet ; but it has very 
little effect on woollen or lin 
s dwarfish growth, ant vale singular elegance of its little leaves, 
which resemble those of the upland Burnet, entitle it toa place in the 
