7J2 ROSA. I CLASS XII. ORDER III. 



derfully displayed, for here from the same plot of earth numberless 

 plants derive their nutriment ; but by their own unassisted power they 

 produce qualities as opposite as can be imagined, one with a most 

 delicious fragrance, another exhaling most foetid odours, one with all 

 its qualities bland and mild, and loaded with nutriment ; while its 

 companion can only add pain and sorrow to almost all animals that 

 partake of it ! But, as Wordsworth says 



" By contemplating these forms 

 In the relations which they bear to man, 

 He shall discern bow through the various means 

 Which silently they yield, are multiplied 

 The spiritual presence of absent things. 

 Trust me that for the instructed time will come 

 When they shall meet no object but may teach 

 Some acceptable lesson to their minds, 

 Of human suffering or of human joy." 



12. JR. rubigino'sa, Linn. (Fig. 808.) True Sweet Briar. Prickles 

 large, numerous, much hooked, and strongly compressed ; leaflets 

 roundish ovate, doubly serrated, rugose, and rough with glands, espe- 

 cially on the margins and under side; calyx segments and pinna? 

 elongated, persistent; fruit elliptical, rough, as well as the peduncles, 

 with bristles. 



English Botany, t. 991. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 386. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 237. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 101. De 

 Cand. Prod. 2. p. 615. R. Eglanteria, Woods. Hudson. 



Root with short suckers. Shrub from four to six feet high, mostly 

 much branched, forming a compact bush, the bark of a bright green. 

 Prickles numerous, strong, compressed, dilated at the base, unequal, 

 the larger ones much hooked, the smaller much less so, and often 

 mixed with these are small bristle-shaped ones, and not unfrequently 

 seta. Leaves with the common footstalk clothed with short glandular 

 pubescence, and furnished with a few slender prickles. Leaflets from 

 five to seven, ovate, roundish ovate, sometimes narrower, with an 

 acute point, of a pale brighlish green, the margins mostly doubly 

 serrated, clothed with short pubescence and glauds, especially on the 

 margin and under side. Stipules pale, thin, sometimes serrated, very 

 glandular on the margin. Flowers from one to three together, concave. 

 Bracteas pale, thin, lanceolate, acute, concave, somewhat hairy and 

 glandular. Peduncles and calyx mostly bristly, segments of the calyx 

 elongated, narrow, reflexed, and as well as the pinnae, in general copi- 

 ously clothed and fringed with glandular hairs. Petals obcordale, 

 deep pink, the disk thickened. Styles slightly hairy. Stigmas scarcely 

 protuberant. Fruit at first yellow, becoming orange red, and at length 

 scarlet, oblong or obovate, bristly, or smooth, crowned by the persistent 

 calyx segments, when ripe scarcely pulpy, and with but little taste. 



Habitat. Hedges and busby places, especially in the South of 



