REMARKS ON THE INDIGENOUS ROSES OF AMERICA. 153 



as the surrounding country. Still further north, flourishes the Rosa 

 acicularis, bearing solitary flowers of pale red. Ten or twelve other 

 species grow in the Russian provinces of northern Asia ; in particular, 

 the Rosa Kamschatica, bearing solitary flowers of a pinkish white. 



" In Africa, on the borders of the vast desert of Sahara, and more 

 especially in the plains towards Tunis, is found the Rosa moschata, 

 whose tufts of white roses give out a musky exhalation. This charm- 

 ing species is also to be found in Egypt, Morocco, Mogadore, and the 

 Island of Madeira. In Egypt, too, grows the Rosa canina, or dog 

 Rose, so common throughout Europe. In Abyssinia, we find an ever- 

 green Rose-tree with pink blossoms, which bears the name of the coun- 

 try, 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 rubi- 

 ginosa, with pale solitary, cup-shaped flowers. In Lapland, blooming 

 almost under the snows of that severe climate, grows the Rosa Maialis, 

 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 Lapland, 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 villosa, the flowers sometimes white, sometimes 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 re- 

 ceived 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 canina in 

 loamy land. 



" Germany, though unproductive in Rose trees, boasts of several 

 highly curious species. Among others, the Rosa turbinata, of which 

 tin- very double flowers spring from an ovary in the form of a crest: 

 and the Rosa arvensis, with large flowers, red and double, in a state of 

 cultivation. 



" The Swiss mountains, and the Alpine chain in general, are rich in 

 native Hoses, besides the field Rose, just mentioned, they have the 



