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And bonnie she, and ah how dear t 

 It shaded &ae the e'enin' sun. 



" Yon rose buds in the morning dew, 



How pure amang the leaves sae green ; 

 But purer was the lover's vow 



They wituess'd in their shade yestreen. 



" All in its rude and prickly bower, 



That crimson rose how sweet and fair I 

 But love is far a sweeter flower. 

 Amid life's thorny path o' care." 



Pliny mentions the briar-rose I'oot as a cure for hydrophobia, and affirms that men 

 derived their knowledge of it from a dream, of which he tells the story. 



The Eglantine has been so long and so frequently eulogized by poets, that we could 

 not here give half the instances that occur to us. The picture of rural beauty sug- 

 gested by Sir Walter Scott seems, however, very appropriate : — 



" Boon nature scatter'd free and wild 

 Each plant and flower, the mountain's child. 

 Here eglantine embalm'd the air, 

 Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; 

 The primrose pale and violet flower, 

 Found in each cliff" a narrow bower ; 

 Foxglove and nightshade side by side. 

 Emblems of punishment and pride, 

 Group'd their dark hues with every stain, 

 The weather-beaten crags retain." 



SPECIES IX.— ROSA MICRANTHA. Sm. 



Plate CCCCLXIX. 



£al-er, in Nat. 18G4, p. 62. 



Prickles few, moderate, curved, uniform, not intermixed with 

 aciculi and gland-tipped setae. Leaflets oval, doubly serrate, bright 

 green and sub-glabrous above, hairy on the veins and with scattered 

 sticky slightly fragrant glands beneath. Pedicels short, with oval 

 bracts and numerous gland-tipped aciculi. Styles glabrous. 

 Pruit lu'ceolate-ovoid, scarlet when ripe. Sepals deciduous, 

 falling by the time the fruit is ripe, leaf-pointed, entire or slightly 

 pinnatifid, with numerous gland-tipped setae on the outside. 



In hedges, bushy places. Not uncommon in the South, but 

 apparently not reaching Scotland. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A large straggling plant, often 6 or 8 feet high, with arching 

 stems having fewer and smaller prickles than R. rubiginosa ; leaflets 



