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VI. Rosa Hibernica, or Irish Rose. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, three or four feet high, forming a thick bush. 

 Branches, straight, of a reddish brown. 

 Thorns, straight, even ; not interspersed with bristles. 

 Branchlets, spreading, with uneven feeble thorns. 

 Suckers, almost bristly, covered with long uneven 



thorns 1 ; some of which are shaped like a fish-hook. 

 Leaves, growing near together. 

 Leaflets, five in number, hairy underneath, especially 



on the mid-rib ; simply toothed. 



Flowers, almost always devoid of floral leaves ; solitary. 

 Flowerstalks, cylindrical. 

 Tube of calyx, and Sepals, naked ; composite, reflexed 



after flowering. 

 Petals, emarginated, concave. 

 Disk, emergent, flat. 

 Fruit, of a deep dingy red, crowned with sepals. 



We have already alluded to the supposed discovery 

 of this rose in Ireland, by Dr. Templeton. 



NINTH TRIBE OF SPECIES III. 

 Rosa Rubiginosa. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, forming a thick, not very high, bush. 



Suckers, curved ; furnished with small thorns, and a 

 few glands. 



Branches, and Branchlets, armed with thorns, more or 

 less numerous. 



Thorns, uneven, often bristly ; sometimes curved, some- 

 times straight. 



Stipules, usually dilated, occasionally narrow ; glandu- 

 lous on the edges. 



