ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF THE UOSE. 9 



Rosa canina, or dog rose, in Europe, as well as a considerable por- 

 tion of Asia and America. 



" To proceed to a consideration of the more beautiful kinds in- 

 digenous in specific countries, wc will commence with North Ame- 

 rica ; where, in the glaciers of the most northerly provinces, grows 

 the Rosa blanda, which unfolds its bright pink corolla, always soli- 

 tary on the stem, immediately on the melting of the snows. This 

 shrub is peculiar to the frozen deserts between 10° and 75° N. lati- 

 tude. Within the polar circle, on the shores of the Hudson, is found 

 the Rosa rapd, or Hudsoniana, covered during spring with clusters 

 of double flowers, of a pale colour. Newfoundland and Labrador 

 possess, in addition to the two species above named, the Rosa fraxi- 

 nifolia, or ash-leaved rose, a small red blossom with heart-shaped 

 petals; the Rosa niiida, the small cup-shaped, deep-red flowers and 

 fruit of which abound under tbe stunted shrubs dispersed over the 

 coasts. The Esquimaux are fond of decorating their hair, and the 

 seal-skins and skins of [rein-deer in which they are clothed, with 

 these beautiful blossoms. 



" The United States, and adjacent Indian settlements, possess a 

 great variety of roses, of which a few striking species may be enu- 

 merated. In the marshes of Carolina grows the Rosa hicida, the 

 bright clusters of which rise above the reeds and rushes ; beside the 

 waves of the Missouri, the Rosa Woodsii ; and in the adjoining 

 marshes, the Rosa Carolina, and Rosa Evratina, whose double- 

 flowers, of a pale pink, perish if transplanted to garden ground from 

 the marshy banks of the rivulets of Virginia, of which the shrub is a 

 native. 



" Quitting the borders of streams and marshy savannahs, we find 

 in the forests and stony districts the Rosa diffusa, of which the pink 

 flowers blossom in pairs early in the summer. On the rising grounds 

 of Pennsylvania, grows the Rosa parvijhra, a diminutive shrub, of 

 which the small, half-blown, elegant double-flowers, slightly tinged 

 with the most delicate pink, constitute one of the most beautiful spe- 

 cies of North America, but extremely difficult of culture and propa- 

 gation. On the outskirts of the Pennsylvania!! forests, grows the 

 Rosa stricla, with flowers of a pale red; the Rosa ritbifolia, the 

 flowers small, pale red, and flowering in clusters of three; and, in 

 South Qarolina, the Rosa setigera, the petals of whose red blossoms 

 are shaped like a reversed heart. The Creoles of Georgia adorn 



