238 ROSES 



§ Small bush with very glandular-haired 

 and sweet-scented foliage; prickles 

 curved and claw-like, mixed %cith 

 bristles. Fruit smooth ovoid. 



Rosa ruhiginosa, L. Sweetbriar. The Sweetbriar 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. 



% Very small shrub, a foot high, with 

 uneqtial prickles, very small simply 

 toothed leaflets, a)id nearly black 

 fruit. 



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



branched shrub with small white or pink flowers ; usually 



near the sea. 



JJJt 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, distinguit^hed 

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

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



(/3) BusJies or s}i)-ubs tcith no armature of 

 prickles or fho7-ns of any kind. 



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



seep. 247.] „ , , , , , , i 



rppy ,.|..|.. t Bushy or tufted, uuk-1i branched shrubs, not 



seep. 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 



