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fliape and fltghtly ferrated, joined to a common 

 footftalk with a few fpines underneath. The flowers 

 are fingle and of a damaflc colour; the hips or feed* 

 veffels are of a dark red, roundifli, depreffed, prick- 

 ly or briftly, and very clammy to the touch. 



3. Rosa humilis. Dwarf Pennfylvanian Rofe. 



This rifes with feveral flender ftems to the height 

 of two or three feet ; covered with a brownifh green 

 bark, and armed with a few fharp fpines. I'he leaves 

 are compofed of. three or four pair of lobes, and an 

 odd one, of an oblong egg-fhape and (harply fawed 

 on their edges. The leaves of the flower cup have 

 often linear, leafFy elongations. The flowers are 

 fingle and of a pale reddifh colour. 



4. Rosa pennfylvanica plena. Double Penn-* 

 fylvanian Roje. 



This very much refembles the lafl; defcribcd in 

 growth and appearance, except in having a double 

 flower. 



R U B U S. 



The RASPBERRY BUSH and BRAMBLE. 



Clafs 12. Order 5. Icofaiidria Polygynia. 



T^HE Empalement is of one leaf, five-parted: the divifions 



oblong, fpreading and permanent. 

 The Corolla is of five petals, roundilTi, fomewhat fpreading, of 



the length of the Empalement and inferted into it. 

 The Filaments are numerous Ihorter than the petals, and in- 



ferted in the Empalement. The Anthem are roundilTi and 



comprefTed. 



The Germen are numerous. The Styles fmall, capillary, and 

 arifing from the fides of the germen. The Stigmas fimple 

 and permanent. Tfee 



