74 ROSA. 



R. scabriuscula by Winch has, " when half iuwrapt, and half to view 

 reveal' d," peculiarly attractive buds and flowers richly tinted with 

 red and white. This is common in our district on sunward banks. 



10. B. rubiffinosa. The Eglantine or ^ioetUl^xiar, or simply t^t 

 33retc. — 



" And I, that all these plesaunt sightis se. 

 Thought suddenly I felt so swete an air 

 Of the Eglentere, that certainly 

 There is no hert (I deme) in such dispair, 

 Ne yet with thoughtis froward and contraire 

 So overlaid, but it should sone have bote 

 If it had onis felt this savour sote." — Chaucer. 



Often planted in hedges ; and is occasionally found on banks in deans. 

 It may be a native ; but its original is obscured by the veils which 

 progress in culture throws over such plants as have come under man's 

 protection and favour. 



200. R. BoRRERi = R. dumetorum, Eng. Bot. tab. 2579. = R. 

 inodora, Brit. Fl. 130. — N. In the wood at the base of Yevering Bell; 

 and on the east declivity of Kyloe crags. 



201. R. c^siA, Fl. Berw. ii. 281. — B. On the bank above the 

 road leading to Whiteadder bridge. A single bush, nor has the species 

 been noticed in any other locality in the district. July. 



202. R. SARMENTACEA. Hcdgcs and deans, frequent. July. 



203. R. DUMETORUM. Deans and brakes. B. Sea-banks below 

 Lamberton Shiels. June-July. 



204. R. FoRSTERi. Rare. D. Ancroft dean. July. 



205. R. CANINA. ^oqMoit: ^viax^o&t: t^t JBog^^P- — 

 Hedges and thickets of natural wood, common. June, July. — It has 

 been ascertained that this species will survive at least 800 years 

 (Humboldt's Views of Nature, p. 275), — an unexpected comment on 

 the poet's fancy that 



" The Rose has but a summer's reign. 

 The Daisy never dies ! " 



The young and juicy shoots of R. canina, and of the allied species, 

 are peeled by truant school-boys and chewed, — rather as a relief from 

 ennui, than to gratify the taste, or appease the appetite. The stems 

 furnish them with bows. These are also occasionally used to make 

 hoops for casks. Our children " make chaines and other pretty gew- 

 gawes of the fruit ": — 



" She sate her down, unseen, to thread 

 The scarlet berry's mimic braid." — Sir W. Scott. 



And often they eat them, first carefully picking and puffing out the 

 hair-enveloped seeds, for well they know that if the hairs get into the 

 neck a youkiness (itch) is the disagreeable consequence*. Is the 



* " That all-devouring gourmand, the schoolboy, who crams eveiy cru- 



