138 TCOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



Per. July. 



Root of elliptic knobs. Stem erect, about one f. Ls. few, alter- 

 nate, leaflets opposite ones nearly equal in size, all saw-toothed, 

 and jagged. Stip. pair of toothed, united at the base of each 

 compound I., stalk-embracing. Fl. cream-coloured, often red- 

 tipped. Styl. in this spec, and in Sp. ulmaria, numerous. Obs. 

 Such iiTegular species are enumerated at the end of the order, or 



class to which they individually belong. 

 Var. fl., double in the gardens. 

 Plant astringent : roots eatable. Linn. 



S. Ulmaria.^ Meadow-sweet. Queen of the Meadows* 

 Leaves interruptedly winged ; downy beneath ; the 

 terminal leaflet largest and lobed. Stem herbaceous. 

 Flowers cymose, with many styles. E. B. 960. C. 

 5. 33. Regina prati. G. E. 1043. 



Moist meadows, hanks of rivers, ditches. 

 Per. July. 



Root fibrous. Stems erect, three, or four f., angular, furrowed, 

 leafy, branched above. Ls. leaflets ver)^ unequal in size, 

 sharply saw-toothed, white, downy beneath. Stip. a pair rounded, 

 saw-toothed, joining the common 1. -stalk, stem-clasping. Fl.- 

 cyme, large, compound, its side branches much above the central 

 one. Styl. six, or eight. Fl. fulsome, sweet, hawthorn-scented. 

 Recommended by Gerarde as a strewing herb, in halls and ban- 

 queting houses; the smell thereof making the heart meny, &c. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



ROSA. Rose/ 



Species difficult to discriminate. Scopoli observes that : " Every 

 one knows a rose from a fungus, but to discriminate the true 

 species is beyond the power even of the consummate botanist." 

 * Branches bristly. Prickles mostly slender, nearly straight. 



(R. spinosissima. Burnet R. E. B. 187. Buckby, 

 Northamptonshire. Ilorton.) 



(Yl. Donidna? Dwarf Hairy R. Flower- stalks gene- 

 rally without bracteas ; bristly, like the globular fruit 

 and simple calyx. Stem bristly and prickly, like the 



, downy foot-stalks. Leaflets elliptical, doubly and 

 sharply saw-toothed, hairy on both sides. Petals 

 spreading. Wood's Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12. 185. R. 



' From its elm-like leaves P 



= (Greatly indebted to Mr. Baxter, for information on this Genus. R. W. 



