Slem of a tree will rise twelve or fourteen feet high; they are armed 

 with crooked reddish spines, and have small leaves, with seven oval 

 acute leaflets, of a lucid green, and serrate: the leaves continue on 

 all the year: the flowers are small, single, white, and have a musky 

 odour. In their natural place of growth they continue in succession 

 great part of the year, but their time of flowering in this climate is 

 June. It is a native of Germany. 



The seventeenth has the branches with a great abundance of 

 prickles, which fall off on the stems: the fruits are large and pear- 

 shaped. It is a native of Austria and Italy. 



The eighteenth species has the young shoots covered with a pale 

 purplish bark, set with a number of small prickles like hairs: the 

 older branches . have but few thorns: the fruit is very large: the 

 flower is thick and double as a red-rose, but so strong swelling in the 

 bud, that many of them break before they can be full blown; and 

 then they are of a pale red-rose colour, between a red and a damask, 

 with a very thick broad hard umbone of short yellow threads in the 

 middle: the segments of the calyx are quite entire: the smell is 

 nearest a red rose. 



The nineteenth has yellow hooked prickles on the stem, which is 

 five or six feet high: the leaflets seven, very fragrant, elliptic or 

 subovate, above smooth and wrinkled, underneath rust-coloured with 

 resinous atoms or little dots: serratures glandular: the petioles also 

 glandular and prickly: the peduncles muricate and in corymbs: 

 the calyx glandular: the petals rose-colour, white at the base: the 

 fruit scarlet, muricate, but sometimes smooth, farinaceous, in- 

 sipid. 



The cultivated plant grows larger and more erect: the leaves are 

 bigger and much sweeter than in the wild one, the rusty colour of 

 them disappears, and the whole puts on a more vigorous appearance: 

 the sweet scent is supposed to proceed from the gland. It is a na- 

 tive of most parts of Europe. 



There are varieties with double flowers: as the Common Double 

 Sweet Briar, the Mossy Double Sweet Briar, the Evergreen Double 



