ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF THE ROSE. 13 



rose, so common throughout Europe. In Abyssinia, we find an 

 evergreen rose-tree with pink blossoms, which bears the name of the 

 country, as the Rosa Abyssinica. Other species are, doubtless, to 

 be found in the unexplored countries of Africa. 



" In Europe, commencing to the north-west with Iceland, (so in- 

 fertile in vegetation, that in some parts the natives are compelled to 

 feed their horses, sheep, and oxen on dried fish,) we find the Rosa 

 rubiginosa, with pale', solitary, cup-shaped flowers. In Lapland, 

 blooming almost under the snows of that severe climate, grows the 

 Rosa Mazalis, small, sweet, and of a brilliant colour ; and the same 

 beautiful species, as if in enlivenment of the cheerless rudeness of the 

 climate, is to be found in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. In Lap- 

 land, too, under shelter of the scrubby evergreens among which the 

 natives seek mosses and lichens for the nourishment of their rein- 

 deer, they find the Rosa rubella, already mentioned, the flowers of 

 which are sometimes of a deep red colour. 



" The Rosa rubiginosa, the pale flowers of which grow in clusters 

 of two or three; the May rose, the Cinnamon rose, the small pale- 

 red flowers of which are sometimes single, sometimes double ; as 

 well as several other hardy species, may be found in all the countries 

 of northern Europe. 



" Six species are indigenous in England. The Rosa involuta ex- 

 hibits its dark foliage and large white or red flowers amid the forests 

 of North Britain, the leaves of which, when rubbed, giving out a 

 smell of turpentine, as if derived from the pine-trees among which 

 the shrub takes root. In the same neighbourhood is found the 

 Rosa Sabini, the Rosa viliosa, the flowers sometimes white, some- 

 times crimson, blowing in pairs; and the Rosa canina. 



" The environs of Belfast produce an insignificant shrub, known 

 as the Rosa Hibernica, for the discovery of which Mr. Templeton 

 received a premium of fifty guineas from the Botanical Society of 

 Dublin, as being a new indigenous plant; though since discovered 

 to become the Rosa spinosissima in poor soils, and the Rosa cani/ia 

 in loamy land. 



" Germany, though unproductive in rose-trees, boasts of several 

 highly curious species. Among others, the Rosa lurbinala, of 

 which the very-double flowers spring from an ovary in the form of a 

 crest; and the Rosa arveniis, with large flowers, red and double, in 

 a state of cultivation. 



