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ROSACE 7E 



very pinnate ; fruit oblong-urceolate, red. — Hedges and thickets ; 

 common. -Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



6. R. ciflanltria (Sweet Briar).— vVn erect, compact bush with 

 many prickles, the larger ones hooked, the smaller unequal, straight ; 

 leaflets doubly serrate, downy, and glandular beneath, mostly 

 rounded at the base ; very fragrant ; flowers 1—4 together, deep 

 rose-colour ; Sepals very pinnate, persistent ; frint pear-shaped, 

 becoming globose, red.— Chiefly on clialk. The Eglantine of 

 the poets, with the exception of Milton, whose " twisted eglantine " 

 IS the Honeysuckle.— Fl. Ma> — July. Perennial. 



Ki'.S.A. CANi\A {Dog.Ri-isA. 



7. R. iiiierdiitha (Small-flowered .Sweet Priar).— A .small bush 

 with long arched branches, i-qual houkeilprickles, ;uk1 faint odour ; 

 leaves doubly serrate, downy and glandular henealh, rounded at 

 the ha^e,; flozi'ers 1 in. across, on bristly sl>";lks, pale rose-colour; 

 friiit small, urceolate, scarlet. — Not common.- Fl. July, August. 



Perennial. 



8. R. ai^rest/s (Slighth'-scented l^riar').- A similar species, 

 differing in having rather unequal lioqked pnckles internu.xed 

 with a f'vi bristles and glandular hairs-; leaflets less rounded at 

 the base ; flowers usually with smooth stalks ; sepals more 



