228 BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



shire. Flowers small, pink. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 6 ft. in height, and flow- 

 ering in June and July. 



52. R. ibe'rica Stev. The Iberian Rose. 



Identification. Stev. m Bieb. Fl. Taur. Suppl., 343; Don's Mill, 2, p. 578. 



Spec. Char., (^c. Cauline prickles scattered, hooked, dilated at the base. Petioles 

 glandular and prickly. Leaflets broad, ovate, glandularly biserrated, and beset wilh glands 

 on bolh surfaces. Fruit ovate, smooth, or with a few bristles, as well as the peduncles. 

 Native of Eastern Iberia, about the town of Kirzchinval. Very nearly allied to R. pul- 

 verulenta, according to Bieberstein. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 6 ft. in height, and 

 flowering in June and July. 



53. R. GLUTiNo\sA Smith. The clammy Rose, or Briar. 



Identification. Smith. Fl. Grcec. Prod., 1, p. 348 ; Fl. Grsec. t. 482 ; Don's Mill., 2, 

 p. 578. 



Synonymes. R. rubiginosa cretica Red. Ros., 1, p. 93, and p. 125, t. 47; R. rubigi- 

 nosa sphasrocarpa Devs. Journ. Rot., 1813, t. 118, Cupan. Pamph., ed. I, t. 61. 



Spec. Char., if'c. Branches pilose. Prickles numerous, falcate. Leaflets roundish, 

 coarsely serrated, hoary, glandular, atid viscid on both surfaces. Fruit and peduncles 

 beset with stiff bristles. Flowers pale blush. Sepals subpinnate. Fruit scarlet. Na- 

 tive of JMount Parnassus, and of Sicily and Candia, on the mountains ; growing to the 

 height of 2 ft. or 3 ft., and flowering in June and July. 



54. R. Klu^kii Bess. Kluki's Rose, or Siccct-Briar. 



Identification. Bess. Cat. Hort. Crem., 1816, Suppl., 4, p. 19; Bieb. Fl. Taur. Suppl., 

 343; Don's Mill., 2, p. 579. 



Synonymes. R. rubiginusa Bieb. Fl. Taur., No. 979, exclusive of the synonymes ; 

 R. floribundi Stev. ; R. balsamea Bess. 



Spec. Char., (^'c. Cauline prickles strong, compressed, dilated at the base, recurved. 

 Petioles villous and prickly. Leaflets small, elliptic, acute, sharply biserrated, with the 

 serratures glandular, villous above, but rusty and glandular beneath. Peduncles and 

 fruit beset with glandular bristles. Flowers pink. Allied to R. rubiginosa, according 

 to Bieberstein ; but, according to Besser, to R. alba. Native of Tauria ; growing to 

 the height of 5 ft., or 6 ft. and flowering in June and July. 



55. R. MoNTEZU^Mffi Humb. Montezuma's Rose, or Briar. 



Identification. Humb. et Bonpl. in Red. Ros., 1, p. 55 ; Don's Mill., 2, p. 579. 



Spec. Char., i^c. Petioles armed with little hooked prickles. Branches unarmed. 

 Leaflets ovate, sharply serrated, glabrous.' Flowers solitary, terminal. Tube of calyx 

 elliptic, and as well as the peduncles, glabrous. Native of Mexico, on the chain of por- 

 phyry mountains which bound the valley of Mexico on the north, at the elevation of 

 1416 toises, on the top of Cerro Ventosa, near the mine of San Pedro. Flowers pale 

 red. Sepals compound, dilated at the end. A shrub growing to the height of from 4 

 ft. to 6 ft., and flowering in June and July. 



VIII. CANI^XJE Lindl. 



Derivation. From caninus, belonging to a dog; because R. canina is commonly 

 called the dog ros3. The name is applied to this section, because all the species con- 

 tained in it agree in character with R. canina. 



Sect. C/iar., 6fc. Prickles equal, hooked. Leaflets ovate, glandlesa 

 or glandular, with the serratures conniving. Sepals deciduous. Disk 

 thickened, closing the throat. Larger suckers arched. 



56. R. CAUCA^sEA Pall. The Caucasian Dog Rose. 



Identification. Pall. Ross., t. 11; Lindl. Ros., p. 97; Don's Mill., 2, p. 579. 



Synonyme. R. leucantha Bieb. Fl. Taur. Suppl., 351. 1 



Spec. Char. d^c. Prickles strong, recurved. Leaflets soft, ovate. Calyx and pedun- 

 cles hispid. Sepals simple. Fruit smooth. Flowers Irrge, growing in bunches, white 

 or pale red. A shrub, growing to the height of from 10 ft. to 12 ft., and flowering in 

 June and July. This species, as grown in the collection of Loddiges, at London, is of a 

 robust habit, with glaucous leaves, flowering and fruiting freely. The plant is a useful 

 one for the filling up of large slirubbcries. 



