THE BOOK OF ROSES. 11 



which the natives seek mosses and lichens for 

 the nourishment of their rein-deer, they find the 

 Rosa rubella, already mentioned, the flowers 

 of which are sometimes of a deep red colour. 



The Rosa rubiginosa, the pale flowers of 

 which grow in clusters of two or three; the 

 May ros^ the Cinnamon rose, the small pale- 

 red flowers of which are sometimes single, 

 sometimes double ; as well as several other 

 hardy species, may be found in all the coun- 

 tries of northern Europe. 



Six species are indigenous in England. The 

 Rosa involuta exhibits its dark foliage and 

 large white or red flowers amid the forests 

 of North Britain, the leaves of which, when 

 rubbed, giving out a smell of turpentine, as 

 if derived from the pine-trees among which 

 the shrub takes root. In the same neighbour- 

 hood, is found the Rosa Sabini, the Rosa villosa, 

 the flowers sometimes white, sometimes crim- 

 son, blowing in pairs ; and the Rosa canina. 



The environs of Belfast produce an insig- 

 nificant shrub, known as the Rosa Hibernica, 

 for the discovery of which Mr. Templeton 

 received a premium of fifty guineas from the 

 Botanical Society of Dublin, as being a new 

 indigenous plant; though since discovered to 

 become the Rosa spinosissima in poor soils, 

 and the Rosa canina in loamy land. 



Germany, though unproductive in rose-trees, 



