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 rosa, Sphtzrulina 

 intermixta, Sclerotinia fructigena, Phragmidium subcorticatum, Conio- 

 thyrium fuckelii, Asteroma roses. The large mossy galls common on 

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

 by Rhodites roscz. 



The plant is galled by Cecidomyia rosarum, Rhodites eglanterice, 

 R. nervos^ts, and Aulacaspis roses. The beetles, Clytus arietis, Lucon 

 murinus, Meligethes lumbaris\ the Hymenoptera, Hylotoma rosce, 

 Pemphilius stramineipes, Aulax broadlii, Crabro tibialis, Andrena 

 bimaculatus, A. rosce; the Lepidoptera, Buff- tip (Pygara bucephald], 

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

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

 insect Capsus capillaris, the Homopteron Typhlocyba rosce, and the fly 

 Spilographa alternata, feed on it. 



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

 adjective from canis, 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. (Vvfr I). 



" The canker blooms have full as deep a dye 

 As the perfumed tincture of the rose." 



