the stalks are covered with a brown bark, and are closely armed 

 with small spines; the leaves are very small; the flowers are also 

 small, sessile, and of a livid red colour: the fruit is round, of a deep 

 purple colour inclining to black when ripe. 



And, according to Withering, there is also a variety with prickly 

 peduncles, and cream-coloured flowers, changing to white. 



Lawrence likewise mentions a double Scotch Rose. 



The eighth species very much resembles the two following sorts ; 

 but differs in having the stem two feet high, the petioles hairy at the 

 top, and the flowers in pairs. It rises with several slender stems to 

 the height of two or three feet, covered with a brownish green bark, 

 and armed with a few sharp spines: the leaflets are seven or nine, 

 oblong-ovate and sharply serrate: the leaves of the flower-cup have 

 often linear leafy elongations : the corolla is single and of a pale 

 reddish colour. 



There is a variety with a double flower. 



The ninth rises with several smooth stalks to the height of five or 

 six feet : the young branches are covered with a smooth purple 

 bark : the leaves are composed of four or five pairs of spear-shaped 

 leaflets, smooth on both sides, of a lucid green on the upper surface, 

 but pale on the under, and deeply serrate: the segments of the ca- 

 lyx long, narrow and entire: the flowers of a livid red colour, single, 

 with little scent, appearing in July. 



The tenth species has the stem five or six feet high, smooth: the 

 stipular prickles two : the leaflets seven, oblong- ovate or nearly lan- 

 ceolate, smooth, not shining, but opaque, serrate, paler underneath, 

 the petioles prickly: the peduncles several, branched, forming a co- 

 rymb, unarmed, with glandular hairs scattered over them: the leaflets 

 of the calyx undivided, hispid on the outside : the petals obcordate, 

 red. It is a sort that flowers late; and, like the two preceding, a 

 native of North America. 



The eleventh grows upright to the height of four feet or more : 

 the branches are upright and short: the prickles on the stem and 

 branches scattered, small, awl-shaped, nearly straight: the leaflets 

 seven, elliptical, bluntish, clothed on both sides with short velvet- 



