238 KOSES 



Small bush with very glandular -haired 

 and sweet-scented foliage; prickles 

 curved and claw-like, mixed with 

 bristles. Fruit smooth ovoid. 



Rosa rubiginosa, L. Sweetbriar. The Svveetbriar may 

 be 6 feet or so high, but often is smaller, bushy, with 

 elongated stout shoots. The prickles tend to be paired 

 beneath the leaf-scars, irregularly scattered elsewhere. 

 Flowers pink. The plant may scramble (see p. 225). 



Foliage not scented. Prickles mostly 

 very slender and straight. 



Jf Very small shrub, a foot high, with 

 unequal prickles, very small simply 

 toothed leaflets, and nearly black 

 fruit. 



Rosa pimpinellifolia,L. Burnet Rose. An erect, densely 

 branched shrub with small white or pink flowers ; usually 

 near the sea. 



# J Larger bush, with downy doubly 

 serrate leaves, and globoid prickly 

 red fruit. 



Rosa villosa, L. Downy Rose. The Downy Rose is allied 

 to R. canina, but is a more independent bush, distinguished 

 by the above characters. The more scrambling roses, R. 

 canina and R. arvensis, have been dealt with on p. 225. 



(/3) Bushes or shrubs with no armature of 

 prickles or thorns of any kind. 



[For (**) * Twigs, buds, leaf -scars and leaves opposite, 

 seep. 247.] 



[For (ft) "f* Bushy or tufted, much branched shrubs, not 



see p. 242.] suitable for switches, withes or wands. 



(That is to say, a boy on the look out for a long, thin, 

 tough and elastic, or " whippy " switch, or a straight rigid 

 wand, would pass over such shrubs in favour of others 



