Rosa.] ROSACES, 95 



10. AGRIMONIA. Linn. Agrimony. 



Calyx turbinate, covered with hooked bristles, 5-cleft, inferior. 

 Petals 5, inserted upon the calyx. Stamens 7 *20. Fruit of 

 2, small, indehiscent capsules, invested by the hardened calyx. 

 Name ; corrupted from Argemone, given by the Greeks to a, 

 plant supposed to cure the cataract in the eye, called a/ary^ta. 



Dodecandria. Digynia. 



1. A. EnpatonOj Linn. Common Agrimony. Cauline leaves 

 interruptedly pinnate, terminal leaflet on a footstalk. Br. Fl. \ . 

 p. 217. E. FL v. ii. p. 346. E. Bot. t. 1335. 



Borders of fields, waste places, and road-sides. FL June, July. 2. 

 Two feet high. Leaflets deeply serrated ; intermediate smaller 

 ones three to five-cleft. Flowers yellow, on a long simple or branched 

 spike, with a trifid bractea at their base. Doctor Hooker remarks 

 that as the number of stamens are so variable in this plant, it would 

 be better, perhaps, to place the Genus with its affinities in Ico- 

 sandria. 



4. Rosea. De Cand. 

 11. ROSA. Linn. Rose. 



Calyx urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating 

 in 5 segments. Petals 5. Pericarps (or Carpels) numerous, 

 bristly, fixed to the inside of the calyx. Name, from the 

 Celtic Rhos, (from rhodd, red) ; whence also the Greek name 

 for a rose, Pooi>, was probably derived. 



Icosandria. Polygynia. 



* Shoots setigerous, prickles scarcely curved. 

 1. Bracteas large. 



1. R. Dicksoni, Lindl. Dicksons Rose. Shoots setigerous; 

 prickles scattered, slender, subulate; leaflets oval, coarsely and 

 irregularly serrated, hoary, sparingly glandulose beneath ; sepals 

 long, simple ; fruit ovato-urceolate. Br. Fl.l.p.224. Borr. 

 in E. Bot. SuppL t. 2707. R. Dicksoniana, Lindl. Syn. 



Said to have been found in Ireland by Mr. J. Drummond. FL 

 June. T? . As this rose was not in the collection of roses found by 

 Mr. Drummond in the south of Ireland, of which he sent me plants a 

 year or two before he left the country for Swan River, I strongly sus- 

 pect it was never found by him in a wild state. All that I know of 

 the history of it is, that it was sent by the late Mr. James Lee, of the 

 Hammersmith Nursery, among a collection purchased by the Dublin 

 Society, for their garden at Glasnevin, in 1 797, and marked as the 

 single variety of R. villosa, under which name I also had it from them 

 for the College Botanic Garden in 1808, and have cultivated it ever 

 since. Mr. Drummond also got it a few years afterwards, in a collec- 



