BOTANICAL NOTES ON THE ROSE. 



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Sect. Rubiginosa. Plants with unequal prickles, sometimes bristle-formed, rarely wanting ; leaf- 

 lets ovate or oblong, glandular, icith diverging 

 serratures ; sepals permanent ; disk thickened ; 

 surcidi arched.— Deciduous erectish shrubs, dis- 

 tinguished by the lower surface of the leaves 

 being glandular. 



R. lutea, JDodon. (yellow Eglantine Rose). A 

 naked-looking bush of about 4 feet high, with erect 

 dark-brown shining branches, armed with pale 

 straight nearly equal prickles, and no setae ; the 

 leaves are shining, of 5 to 7 elliptic leaflets, more 

 or less hoary beneath ; the flowers are solitary deep 

 yellow, large, and cup-shaped. Syn. : R. eglan- 

 teria, Linn ; R. fcetida, Herm. ; R. chlorophylla, 

 Ehrh. ; R. cerea, Rossig. Var. punicea (Austrian 

 brier) has the petals scarlet above and yellow be- 

 neath (R. punicea, Mill ; R. lutea bicolor, J acq.) ; 

 flore-pleno (Williams's double yellow) is a handsome 

 double-flowered yellow Rose ; as also is Hoggii, an 

 American variety.— Fl. June — Cult. 1596 — Ger- 

 many and South of France. 

 Rosa rubiginosa. 



R. rubiginosa, Linn. (Sweet Brier, or Eglantine). A much branched shrub of 4 to 6 feet 

 high, with flexuose branches armed with numerous strong hooked unequal prickles, dull green, 

 rugose, sweet-scented leaves of 5-7 roundish ovate leaflets, which are covered with numerous 

 glands beneath, and pale blush or pink flowers, two or three together, the "peduncles and calyx 

 hispid with weak setae" ; fruit orange red, roundish or obovate, hispid or smooth, crowned by 

 the ascending sepals. Syn. : R. suavifolia, Lightf. ; R. eglanteria, Mill. The varieties are 

 numerous : — micrantha has the prickles nearly equal, the calyx deciduous, and the fruit small, 

 elliptic or obovate (R. micrantha, Sm. ; R. odoratissima, Scop. ; R. Crantzii, Schultes) ; umbellata 

 has branches very prickly, the flowers several in a fascicle, and the fruit globose, nearly 

 smooth (R. umbellata, Leers; R. tenuiglandulosa, Mer. ; R. sempervirens, Roth. ; R. eglanteria 

 cymosa, Woods) ; grandifiora, with large flowers and purple fruit (R. grandiflora, Wallr.) • 

 flexuosa, with very flexuose branches, and nearly orbicular leaflets (R. flexuosa, Ran. ; R. mon- 

 tana, D.C. ; R. Reyuieri, Hall); rotundifolia, with flail-like branches, and roundish leaflets ; 

 sepium, with slender flexuose branches, shining leaflets, subsolitary flowers, and polished fruit 

 (R. sepium, Thuill. ; R. helvetica, Hall; R. myrtifolia, Hall; R. agrestis, Savi; R. biserrata, 

 Mer. ; R. macrocarpa, Mer. ; R. stipularis, Mer.) ; inodora, with prickles much hooked, nearly 

 equal, oblong leaflets nearly scentless, deciduous sepals, and smooth oblong fruit (R. inodora, 

 Fries ; R. dumetorum, Smith ; R. Borreri, Woods) ; aculeatissima, with very prickly branches, 

 flowers usually solitary, and fruit ovate ; parvifolia, a stunted plant, with small round leaflets, 

 and setigerous branches (R. micrantha, D. C.) — Fl. June and July — Britain and throughout 

 Europe. 



R. suaveolens, Pursh (American Sweet Brier). A shrub of 5 to 6 feet high, the branches 

 furnished with straight scattered prickles, the leaflets scented, ovate, and sparingly glandular 



beneath ; flowers usually solitary, pink, with entire sepals ; fruit ovate. — Fl. June and July 



Cult. ? . . . . — North America. 



R. Montana, Vill. (mountain Sweet Brier). A small shrub of 2 to 3 feet high, with strong 

 red branches armed with solitary hooked prickles, roundish abrupt smooth leaves, hardly 

 glandular, and small white flowers. — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1820 — Tauria. 



R. fulverulenta, Bicb. (powdery Brier). A stiff shrub of 5 to 6 feet high, the brandies 

 having numerous slender setae, tipped with glands, the prickles recurved, the leaves of 5-7 



