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pale or bright red. Fruit round, naked, and crimson. 



The double-flowered variety is most common in gar- 

 dens. An upright shrub. Native of most parts of 



Europe, and a doubtful native of England. Height 



5 ft. to 6 ft. Flowers pale or bright red ; May and 



June. Fruit crimson ; ripe in September. 



A very desirable sort, on account of its fragrance, 

 which resembles that of cinnamon. There is a semi- 

 double variety ; and the single state is supposed to be 

 identical with R. majalis below. 



Other European Species not Natives of Britain. R. 

 frutetorum Bess., R. taurica Bieb., and R. dahurica 

 Pall., are described in our first edition, and the first two are in Messrs. Lod- 

 diges's collection. 



D. Species Natives of Britain. 

 jtt 13. R. (c.) MAJA'LIS Retz. The May Rose. 



Identification. Retz. Obs. Bot., 3. p. 33. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 566. 

 Synonymes. R. mutica Fl. Dan. 688. ; ft. spinosissima Garter. Ingr. 

 78. ; R. collincola Ehr. Beitr. 2. p. 70. ; R. cinnambmea Eng. Bot. 2388. 

 Engravings. Fl. Dan., t. 688. ; Eng. Bot., t. 2388. ; and our fig. 563. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Dwarf grey. Branches straight, coloured. 

 Prickles scattered, nearly equal. Stipules linear. Leaf- 

 lets oblontj, flat, glaucous, and tomentose beneath. 

 (Don's Mill.) A nearly smooth shrub. Flowers usually 

 solitary, pale red. Fruit orange red, spherical, and 

 naked. Native of Sweden and Lapland ; and of Britain, 

 near Pontrfract, in Yorkshire. 

 Height 3ft. to 4ft. Flowers 

 pale red ; May and June. 



This is supposed by some to be the single state of 

 R. cinnamomea. 



& 14. R. DICKSOXIA^NA Lindl. Dickson's Rose. 



Identification. Lindl. Hort. Trans., 7. p. 224. ; Eng. Bot., vol. 



p. 51.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 566. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2707. ; and our fig. 564. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches flexuous, setigerous, armed 

 with a few slender scattered prickles. Leaflets 

 folded together, unequal, with coarse double ser- 

 ratures. Stipules, petioles, and sepals compound. 

 Styles stretched out, glabrous. (Don's Mill.) A 

 large prickly shrub. Ireland. Height 5 ft. to 6 ft. 

 Flowers white or pale pink ; June and July. 



if 



563. . majalis. 



504. . Dicksom 



iv. Pimpinellifblife Lindl. 



Sect. Char., fyc. Plants bearing crowded, nearly equal, prickles, or unarmed. 

 Bractless, rarely bracteate. Leaflets ovate or oblong. Sepals connivent, 

 permanent. Disk almost wanting. This section is essentially different from 

 the last in habit, but in artificial characters they approach very nearly. It, 

 however, may be distinguished by the greater number of leaflets ; which 

 vary from 7 to 13, and even to 15, instead of from 5 to 7. The flowers 

 are also universally without bracteas ; except in the R. alpina, R. Sabinz, 

 R. Doniana, and, perhaps, R. marginata. These, having connivent perma- 

 nent sepals, cannot be confounded with the preceding division ; nor, on 

 account of their disk, with the following. There is no instance of stipular 

 prickles in the present tribe. The sepals are entire, or nearly so, unless 



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