DOG ROSE 169 
The fruit is edible, and the seeds are dispersed by animals and 
birds, &c., and do not fall. 
The Dog Rose is more or less a humus-loving plant, growing in 
humus soil, but is also largely a sand plant, requiring a sandy loam. 
The fungi which affect roses are Peronospora rose, Spherulina 
intermixta, Sclerotinia fructigena, Phragmidium subcorticatum, Conto- 
thyrium fuckelit, Asteroma rose. The large mossy galls common on 
this plant, and popularly known as the Robin's Pincushions, are formed 
by Rhodites rose. 
The plant is galled by Cecedomyza rosarum, Rhodites eglanterie, 
R. nervosus, and Aulacaspis rose. he beetles, CZytus arietis, Lucon 
murinus, Meligethes lumbaris; the Hymenoptera, /fylotoma rose, 
Pemphilius straminetpes, Aulax broadhi, Crabro tibialis, Andrena 
bimaculatus, A. rose; the Lepidoptera, Buff-tip (Pygera bucephala), 
Grey Dagger (Acronycta pst), The Streamer (Czdarza derivata), Nep- 
ticula angustifasciella, Spilonota rose-collana, &c.; the Heteropterous 
insect Capsus capillaris, the Homopteron 7yphdocyba rose, and the fly 
Spilographa alternata, feed on it. 
Rosa, Pliny, is Latin for rose, and the second Latin name is an 
adjective from canzs, dog. The rose was so named because the root 
was supposed to cure the bite of a dog. 
It is called Bird Brier, Brear, Briar, Briar Rose, Briar Tree, Hep 
Brier, Brier Bush, Brimmle, Buck Breer, Buckie-berries, Buckie 
Briar, Buckies, Bucky, Bull-beef, Canker, Canker-berry, Canker- 
flower, Canker-rose, Cat-choops, Cat-hep, Cat-jugs, Cat-whin, Choop, 
Chowps, Cowitch, Daily Bread, Dogberry, Dogbeer, Dog-chowp, 
Dog-hip, Dog-job, Dog-jumps, Dog Rose, Eglantine, Hap, Haup, 
Hedgepeak, Hippans, Dog’s Hippans, Hip-rose, Hipson, Horse 
Bramble, Huggan, Humack, Itching Berries, Lawyers, Buckie Lice, 
Nippernails, Nips, Pig-noses, Pixie Pears, Redberries, Soldiers, 
Tickler or Tickling Tommy, Yew Brimmle. 
The hips of Roses were called Ticklers because boys put them 
down one another’s backs, Daily Bread because the young shoots are 
eaten by children, Bull-beef because of the same reason. 
“] had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace.” 
Much Ado About Nothing. 
“To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, 
And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke.” 
King Henry IV. (Part 1). 
“The canker blooms have full as deep a dye 
As the perfumed tincture of the rose.” 
