

24 THE ROSE. 

mon throughout Europe. In Abyssinia we find 
an evergreen Rose-tree, with pink blossons, which 
bears the name of the country, R. Abyssinica. 
EUROPE. 
Commencing with Iceland, a country so infertile 
in vegetation, we find R. rubiginosa (sweet briar) 
with pale solitary cup-shaped flowers. In Lap- 
land (honored by the researches of Linnzeus 
himself), blooming almost under the snows of 
that severe climate, grows the R. majalis, small, 
sweet, and of a brilliant color; and the same 
beautiful species enlivens the cheerless, rude cli- 
mate of Norway, Denmark and Sweden The 
sweet briar, the May-rose, the Cinnamon rose, the 
small red flowers of which are sometimes dou- 
ble, as well as several other hardy species, may 
be found in the countries of Northern Europe. 
Six species are indigenous to England. R. 
involuta exhibits its dark foliage and large red 
flowers amid the forests of North Britain; in the 
same districts are found R. Sabini, the R. villosa 
with crimson flowers, and R. canina, the common 
Dog-rose. 


