710 KOSA. LCLASS XII. ORDER III. 



glandular ; serratures diverging. Calyx segments persistent. Disk 

 thick, closing up the tnouth of the tube. 



10. R. inodo'ra, Fries. (Fig. 806.) Slightly-scented Briar. Prickles 

 much hooked, nearly equal ; leaflets oblong, doubly serrated, mostly 

 hairy and glandulous beneath ; calyx segments veiy compound, 

 deciduous before the fruit is ripe; fruit oblong, or nearly globular, 

 smooth, as well as the peduncles. 



Fries. Nov. Fl. Suec. De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 617. — English Botany, 

 Supp. t. 2610, foot of page. — Hooker, British Flora, ed. 3. p. 235. — 

 R. Borreri, Woods. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 389. — R. dumetorum. — 

 English Botany, t. 2579. — R. rubiginosa, J. inodora. — Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 101. 



j3. " Leaves hairy on both sides." — Woods. Hooker, British Flora, 

 ed 3. p. 236. 



y. " Leaves more copiously glandulous ; calyx segments elongated, 

 persistent."— Hooker, British Flora, ed. 3. p. 236. 



Root with short creeping suckers. Shrub from six to eight feet 

 high, with stout arched drooping braaches. Prickles mostly scattered, 

 strongly hooked and dilated at the base, flowering branches frequently 

 unarmed. Leaves with the common footstalk downy and glandulous, 

 and a few small prickles. Leaflets five to seven, ovate, scarcely acu- 

 minate, dark shining green above, paler and more hairy beneath, and 

 mostly scattered over with a few small glands, which give it a slight 

 turpentine scent, the margin doubly serrated. Stipules narrow, with 

 a slightly serrated glandular margin. Flowers solitary, or three or 

 many together in a bunch. Peduncles short, bristly, hairy, or more 

 rarely naked. Bracteas ovate, pointed, bristly, hairy or naked. 

 Calyx with the tube mostly naked, its segments about as long as the 

 petals, simply, rarely compoundly pinnated, and fringed with glan- 

 dular teeth. Petals rather small, pale pink. Stigmas depressed. 

 Fruit ovate, or nearly globular, smooth scarlet, soft and pulpy when 

 ripe, and with the same agreeable acidity as R. Canina. 



Habitat. — Hedges, thickets, &c., especially in the South of England. 

 County of Dublin, Ireland. /S. "near Edinburgh, and elsewhere; 

 y. Gen Goy, Inveruess-shire; near Newcastle. — Mr. Robertson.^' 



Shrub ; flowering in June and July. 



11. R. micran^tha, Smith. (Fig. 807.) Small-flowered Sweet Briar. 

 " Prickles uniform, uncinate ; leaflets doubly serrated, hairy, glandu- 

 lous beneath; calyx segments and pinnae elongated, deciduous; fruit 

 small, elliptical, and ovate ; ramuli sparingly setigerous." 



English Botany, t. 2490.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 388.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 3. vol. i. p. 236. — R. rubiginosa, Linn. var. 

 micrantha. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 101. — De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 617. 



" Scarcely stoloniferous, five to eight feet high, of loose straggling 

 growth, with arched shoots and spreading branches. Prickles strongly 

 hooked, not numerous, nor intermixed with straight subulate ones, but 



