CLASS XU. ORDER III.] ROSA. 713 



England ; about Edinburgh, Scotland ; and near Passage, Belfast, and 

 by the side of the river Roe, near Newtovvn-limavady, Ireland. 

 Shrub; flowering in June and July. 



The leaves of the Sweet Briar have a fragrance, which is compared 

 to the odour of ripe apples, but is much more delicate. This secretion 

 arises chiefly from the glands, with which the leaves are so abundantly 

 supplied. Jt is from this circumstance that it is so much esteemed, 

 and the cottage gardener scarcely considers his stock of shrubs or 

 garden hedge complete without one or more plants of the Sweet Briar. 



13. Z?. se'pium, Thvil. (Fig. 809.) Small-leaved Siveet Briar. 

 " Prickles numerous, larger curved, smaller subulate ; leaflets small, 

 doubly serrated, hairy, acute at each end, glandulous beneath; calyx 

 segments and pinnae elongated ; (t'ruit ovate?)" 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 238. — English Botany, Supp. 

 t. 2653. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 101. — R. rubiginosuy o. sepium. — De 

 Cand. Prod. 2. p. 617. 



" A densely branched bush, about three feet high, distinguished in 

 the common French plant by long slender flexuous twigs, with large 

 nearly straight, or falcate, or even uncinate prickles, and small distant 

 lanceolate leaflets, mostly seven, acute, (mostly, but not invariably,) at 

 the base as well as the point. The petioles are glandulous, sometimes 

 hairy, and bear a few straightish or curved prickles. The peduncles 

 and calyx tube are usually naked, but occasionally both, or the former 

 only, bear setae, which are larger on the base of the tube, although less 

 remarkable than in R. ruhiginosa. The calyx segments are variously 

 glandulous, and the narrowly lanceolate pinnae issue more or less 

 exactly at right angles, and have little sharp divaricated gland-tipped 

 teeth. The styles are included, and very slightly hairy. — In Mr. 

 Bree's plant, which I have seen only under cultivation, I find but 

 little difference, except that the ramuli are less flexuous, and the 

 leaflets not remarkably distant, rather larger, and more hairy, almost 

 shaggy beneath. The pinnae of the calyx are less divaricated, and 

 have glands on the edges only, (as they have in a specimen gathered 

 by Mr. Woods, at Troyes, which also has larger leaflets). The flowers 

 are white, clustered or solitary, according, as usual, to their situation 

 on the bush. The fruit is scarlet, ovate (rounded at the base) when 

 solitary ; I have no note of its shape in the bunches. The prickles, 

 which have a few setce among them, are numerous, the larger ones 

 strongly hooked." 



Habitat.— ^ ear Bridport, Warwickshire.— iJev. W. T, Bree, 



Shrub ; flowering in June. 



The above description by Mr. Borrer of this doubtful species of 

 Rose we have taken from the British Flora, as we are unacquainted 

 with native plants in a living state. 



