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BRITISH FLORA 



pinnate, somewhat persistent. The flowers are 

 1-3, rose colour. The flower-stalks are hairy, 

 and the styles also hairy. The fruit is nearly 

 round, egg-shaped, or oblong, pear-shaped at 

 first, with a very small disk, and ripe in October. 

 The plant is 3-6 ft. high, flowering in June and 

 July, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Sweet Briar (Rosa micrantha, Sm.). The habi- 

 tat of this species is hedges and thickets. The 

 stem is suberect, with long, loose, arched branches. 

 The foliage is scarcely scented. The leaflets are 

 rounded below, small, pointed, hairless above, 

 densely glandular below, doubly toothed, hairy in 

 the veins below. The prickles are uniform. The 

 flowers are few, pale, the sepals falling, densely 

 glandular, with a leafy point and 1-2 leaflets. The 

 flower-stalk is usually hairy. The styles are hair- 

 less. The fruit is pitcher-shaped to egg-shaped, 

 scarlet, rounded below, with a disk, ripe in Sep- 

 tember and October. The plant is 3-6 ft. high, 

 flowering in June and July, and is a deciduous 

 shrub. 



Rosa Borreri, Woods. The habitat of this rose 

 is heaths and hedges. In this species, placed by 

 Mr. Druce under R. ob/usi/bZia, Desv. ( = tomen- 

 M/a, Lem.), the leaflets are flat, hairless above, 

 haiiy beneath, with 'obscure glands, larger than 

 in the latter. The leaflets are double-toothed. 

 The bracts are densely fringed with glands, the 

 backs naked. The styles are thinly hairy. The 

 prickles are stout and much hooked. The sepals 

 are naked. The flowers are numerous. The flower- 

 stalk is short, bristly, naked, slightly glandular. 

 The calyx-tube is egg-shaped, naked, the sepals 

 at length spreading or turned back, falling when 

 the fruit ripens. 



Rosa dumelorum, Thuill. The habitat of this 

 species is hedges. The leaflets are green, the 

 terminal one large, with simple teeth, soft, grey- 

 green, thinly hairy both sides, downy below, at 

 least on the midrib. The flowers are pink, rather 

 deep. The flower-stalk is naked, as the leaf-stalk. 

 The styles are softly, not very, hairy. The fruit 

 is nearly round, large, egg-shaped. The plant is 

 3-6 ft. high, flowering in June and July, and is a 

 deciduous shrub. 



Rosa glauca, Vill. The habitat of this species 

 is hedges, thickets, chiefly in hilly northern dis- 

 tricts. The plant forms a compact bush. The 

 rootstock is erect, arched. The leaflets are hair- 

 less or hairy, often bluish -green, egg-shaped, 

 simply or doubly coarsely toothed, simple. The 

 prickles are slender, equal hooked. The leaf-stalk 

 is hairless. The flowers are rose-pink. The sepals 

 are ascending after flowering or erect. The flower- 

 stalk is naked, short, nearly hidden by the large 

 bracts. The bracts, stipules, and branches turn 

 red. The styles are woolly, free. The fruit is 

 egg-shaped, pitcher-like, with a narrow mouth, 

 or roundish, ripening in September. The disk is 

 narrow. The plant is 3-8 ft. high, flowering in 

 June and July, and is a deciduous shrub. 



Rasa cifsia, Sm.=cortt/blia, Dr. The habitat 

 of this plant is hedges, thickets, &c., chiefly in 

 hilly or northern districts. The leaflets are hairy 



both sides, softly hairy below, or doubly toothed, 

 grey-green. The flower-stalk is glandular. The 

 stipules and bracts are downy on the back. The 

 fruit is nearly round. The plant is 3-8 ft. high, 

 flowering in June and July, and is a deciduous 

 shrub. 



Rosa stylosa, Desv. The habitat of this species 

 is hedges, chiefly in the south of England. The 

 plant is a tall bush, rarely low, with an erect to 

 arching stem. The root-shoots are erect, arched. 

 The leaflets are usually simply toothed, hairy 

 below, oblong, acute, rounded below. The leaf- 

 stalks are glandular and bristly, like the flower- 

 stalks. The prickles are equal hooked. The 

 flowers are 3-6, pale-pink or white. The sepals 

 are bent back, falling, pinnate, with a tapered 

 point. The styles are hairless, and protrude and 

 fall short of the stamens. The disk is very pro- 

 minent. The fruit is egg-shaped. The plant is 

 4-12 ft. high, flowering in June and July, and is a 

 deciduous shrub. 



Trailing Rose (Rosa arvensts, Huds.). The 

 habitat of this species is hedges, thickets, and 

 woods. The habit is trailing. The plant is a 

 large bush, with long, arching branches or root- 

 shoots, purple, bluish-green. The prickles are 

 sometimes very large, unequal, those on the 

 ramuli awl -like, stout, strongly hooked. The 

 leaflets are glandless, hairless, or slightly downy, 

 bluish-green below, simply toothed, nearly flat. 

 The flowers are 4-6, white, with a yellow throat. 

 The sepals are naked on the back, short, broad, 

 bent back, falling, simply pinnate, with a short 

 point. The calyx is purple. The flower-stalk is 

 glandular. The style is in a round head, united 

 into an exserted column, hairless, as long as the 

 stamens. The fruit is nearly round, small, with 

 a convex, thickened disk, ripening late. The plant 

 is 2-6 ft. high, flowering from June to August, and 

 is a deciduous shrub. 



The French Rose (Rosa gallica, L.). This rose 

 is a bushy shrub. The prickles are unequal. The 

 stipules are narrow. The leaflets are 5-7, leathery, 

 rigid, elliptic. The flowerbud is egg-shaped to 

 round. The flowers are red, crimson, or white, 

 single or double under cultivation. The sepals are 

 spreading during flowering. The fruit is red, 

 nearly round, very leathery. The calyx and 

 flower-stalk are more or less hairy with glandular 

 hairs, and sticky. The plant is 2-3 ft. in height. 

 It flowers in June and July, and is a deciduous 

 shrub. The fruit ripens in August. 



Cinnamon Rose (Rosa cinnamomea, L. = R. 

 blanda, Alton). This rose is an alien species, intro- 

 duced. The stem has deep-red bark, slender, hori- 

 zontal, or bent-back prickles, unequal, numerous, 

 awl-like. The stipules arc oblong, pointed, fringed 

 with glands. The leaflets are oblong, simple, 

 toothed, greyish -green, downy, without glands. 

 The flowers are purplish-red, with broad, hollow 

 petals. The flower-stalks are smooth. The fruit 

 is deep-red, egg-shaped or rounded. The plant is 

 4-5 ft. high, flowering in May onward, and is a 

 deciduous shrub. 



Dickson's Rose (Rosa Dicksoni, Lindl.). The 



