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prickly, and very much branched. The leaves are 

 of a dusky green, eacli composed of several pairs 

 of smaller, with an odd one at the end. The flow- 

 ers are somewhat smaller than those of the damask 

 rose, but of the same form : and their colour is 

 white, and they have less fragrance than the 

 damask. 



The flowers are used. They are to be gathered 

 in the bud, and used fresh or dry. A strong infusion 

 of them is good against overflowings of the menses, 

 and the bleeding of the piles. 



Red Rose. Rosa rubra. 



Anotiieti shrub common in our gardens, and 

 the Icasi and lowest of the three kinds of roses. The 

 sialics are round, woody, weak, and prickly, but 

 they have fewer prickles than those of the damask 

 rose : the leave- arc large : they are composed each 

 of three or four pa ; r of smaller, which are oval, of a 

 dusky green, and serrated round the edges. The 

 flowers are of the shape and size of those of the 

 damask rose, but they are not so double, and they 

 have a great quantity of yellow threads in the middle. 

 They are of an exceeding line deep and red colour, 

 and they have very little smell : the fruit is like the 

 common hip. 



The flowers are used. They are to be gathered 

 when in bud, and cut from the husks without the 

 white bottoms and dried. The conserve of red 

 loses is made of these buds prepared as for the 

 drying ; they are beaten up with three times their 

 weight of sugar. When dried, they have more vir- 

 tue ; they are given in infusion, and sometimes in 

 powder against overflowings of the menses, and all 

 other bleedings. Half an ounce of these dried buds 

 are to be put into an earthen pan, and a pfnt of 



