DOG ROSE 169 



The fruit is edible, and the seeds are dispersed by animals and 

 birds, &c., and do not fall. 



The Dog Rose is more or less a humus -loving plant, growing in 

 humus soil, but is also largely a sand plant, requiring a sandy loam. 



The fungi which affect roses are Peronospora rosce, Sphczrulina 

 intennixta, Sclerotinia fructigena, Phragmidium subcorticatum, Conio- 

 thynnm fuckehi, Asteronia rosce. The large mossy galls common on 

 this plant, and popularly known as the Robin's Pincushions, are formed 

 by Rhodites ros&. 



The plant is galled by Cecidomyia rosarztm, Rhodites eglanterice, 

 R. nervosiLS, and Aulacaspis rose?. The beetles, Clytus arietts, Lucou 

 mnriniis, Meligethes lumbaris; the Hymenoptera, Hylotoina roses, 

 Pemphilins strainineipes, A2ilax broadlii, Crabro tibialis, Andrena 

 bnnaculatiLS, A. roste\ the Lepidoptera, Buff- tip (Pygeera bucephala], 

 Grey Dagger (A crony eta psi}, The Streamer (Cidaria derivata}, Nep- 

 ticula angustifasciella, Spilonota rosa-collana, &c. ; the Heteropterous 

 insect Capsus capillaris, the Homopteron Typhlocyba ros&, and the fly 

 Spilographa alternata, feed on it. 



Rosa, Pliny, is Latin for rose, and the second Latin name is an 

 adjective from cam's, dog. The rose was so named because the root 

 was supposed to cure the bite of a dog. 



It is called Bird Brier, Brear, Briar, Briar Rose, Briar Tree, Hep 

 Brier, Brier Bush, Brimmle, Buck Breer, Buckie- berries, Buckie 

 Briar, Buckies, Bucky, Bull -beef, Canker, Canker -berry, Canker- 

 flower, Canker-rose, Cat-choops, Cat-hep, Cat-jugs, Cat-whin, Choop, 

 Chowps, Cowitch, Daily Bread, Dogberry, Dogbeer, Dog-chowp, 

 Dog-hip, Dog-job, Dog-jumps, Dog Rose, Eglantine, Hap, Haup, 

 Hedgepeak, Hippans, Dog's Hippans, Hip- rose, Hipson, Horse 

 Bramble, Huggan, Humack, Itching Berries, Lawyers, Buckie Lice, 

 Nippernails, Nips, Pig-noses, Pixie Pears, Redberries, Soldiers, 

 Tickler or Tickling Tommy, Yew Brimmle. 



The hips of Roses were called Ticklers because boys put them 

 down one another's backs, Daily Bread because the young shoots are 

 eaten by children, Bull-beef because of the same reason. 



" I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace." 



Much Ado About Nothing. 



" To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, 

 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke." 



King Henry IV. (Part I). 



" The canker blooms have full as deep a dye 

 As the perfumed tincture of the rose." 



