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Sweet Briar, the Marbled Doubled Sweet Briar, the Red Double 

 Sweet Briar, the Royal Sweet Briar, and the Yellow Sweet Briar. 



The twentieth species, which is mostly denominated the Moss 

 Rose, from the moss-like pubescence on the calyx, has the stalks and 

 branches closely armed with brown spines: the peduncles and calyx 

 are covered with long hair-like moss: the flowers are of an elegant 

 crimson colour, and have a most agreeable odour. It is known to 

 us only in its double state, and the country lo which we are indebted 

 for it is not ascertained. 



The twenty-first, or Musk Rose, rises with weak stalks to the 

 height of ten or twelve feet, covered with a smooth greenish bark, 

 and armed with short strong spines : the leaflets seven, light-green 

 and serrate: the flowers in large bunches, in form of umbels, at the 

 end of the branches, are white, and have a fine musky odour, ap- 

 pearing in July and August, and continuing in succession till the 

 frost stops them. The stalks are too weak to support themselves. 

 There is a variety with double flowers. 



The editor of Miller's Dictionary considers the Evergreen Musk 

 Rose of Miller to be the same with this. 



The twenty-second species is a low shrub, with reddish-brown 

 stems, the lower half or thereabouts of which is covered with 

 straight awl-shaped slender white not pungent prickles ; the upper 

 part is quite naked: the stipules ciliate-glandular at the edge: the 

 petioles hispid, and glandular: the leaflets commonly seven, smooth 

 on both sides, ovate, biserrate, ciliate, glandular: the peduncles 

 naked, unarmed: flowers solitary, red, middle-sized. It is a native 

 of the Alps, &c. flowering in June and July. 



The twenty-third has a height seldom exceeding three feet: the 

 flowers large in proportion to the plant, semidouble, with great 

 richness of colour (dark red) uniting a most delightful fragrance, 

 coming out in succession during the greater part of the year, only 

 more sparingly in the winter months: the segments of the calyx 

 leafy at the end, one larger than the rest: the germs and peduncles 

 sometimes, but rarely, smooth. It is a native of China. 



