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And bonnie she, and ah how dear ! 
Tt shaded frae the e’enin’ sun. 
“Yon rose buds in the morning dew, 
How pure amang the leaves sae green ; 
But purer was the lover’s vow 
They witness’d in their shade yestreen. 
“ Allin its rude and prickly bower, 
That crimson rose how sweet and fair ! 
But love is far a sweeter flower, 
Amid life’s thorny path o’ care.” 
Pliny mentions the briar-rose root as a cure for hydrophobia, and affirms that men 
_ derived their knowledge of it from a dream, of which he tells the story. 
The Eglantine has been so long and so frequently eulogized by poets, that we could 
not here give half the instances that occur to us. The picture of rural beauty sug- 
gested by Sir Walter Scott seems, however, very appropriate :— 
“ Boon nature scatter’d free and wild 
Each plant and flower, the mountain’s child, 
Here eglantine embalm’d the air, 
Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; 
The primrose pale and violet flower, 
Found in each cliff a narrow bower ; 
Foxglove and nightshade side by side, 
Emblems of punishment and pride, 
Group’d their dark hues with every stain, 
The weather-beaten crags retain.” 
SPECIES IX.—ROSA MICRANTHA. sm. 
Prate CCCCLXIX. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 62. 
Prickles few, moderate, curved, uniform, not intermixed with 
aciculi and gland-tipped sete. Leaflets oval, doubly serrate, bright 
green and sub-glabrous above, hairy on the veins and with scattered 
sticky slightly fragrant glands beneath. Pedicels short, with oval 
bracts and numerous gland-tipped aciculi. Styles glabrous. 
Fruit urceolate-ovoid, scarlet when ripe. Sepals deciduous, 
falling by the time the fruit is ripe, leaf-pointed, entire or slightly 
pinnatifid, with numerous gland-tipped sete on the outside. 
In hedges, bushy places. Not uncommon in the South, but 
apparently not reaching Scotland. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A large straggling plant, often 6 or 8 feet high, with arching 
stems having fewer and smaller prickles than R. rubiginosa ; leaflets 
