106 THE STORY OF PLANT Lie 
Brumble, Country Lawyers, Ewe Bramble, Gaiter 
Tree are a few names given to it. 
THE Doc Rose _ (Rosa camina). 
Like the May or Hawthorn the Dog Rose is one 
of the most popular of flowers, besides being as a rose 
the national emblem of England. It is found as far 
north as the Orkneys, and at an altitude of 1350 ft. 
in Yorkshire. 
A certain place in which to find the Dog Rose is a 
hedge by the wayside, where it forms a safe nesting- 
place for many small birds, and grows side by side 
with the Bramble, Hawthorn, Apple, Elder, Black- 
thorn, Cornel, Privet, and other hedgerow plants. 
In the same way it is common in the hedges in fields 
and meadows, where it forms a strong fence, often 
projecting with its prickly branches some distance 
from the hedge, and is an effective deterrent to the 
marauding birds-nester, or the poacher, in the dark 
being also a menace to wandering cattle. 
It isalso a common component of the scrub in 
woods and of the undergrowth, as well as of 
commons and heaths with furze and other plants 
that possess protective means of warding off the 
attacks of browsing cattle. 
It is a climbing or trailing bush, tall, arching over 
above, very graceful in habit. The stem is green or 
purple, with numerous equal recurved prickles, 
smooth and glossy. . 
The leaves are pinnate with simple or double 
