ROSA MICRANTHA 
Sweet Briar of our gardens, but it frequently throws up long, rampant 
and unarmed barren shoots which very rarely occur in the Sweet Briar. 
It is also closely related to Rosa agrestis Savi, from which it differs by 
its setose peduncles and leaflets rounded at the base. It is a native of 
central and western Europe. In England it occurs fairly frequently, 
and it is plentiful in the south. It is rare in Ireland, where its only 
recorded station is near Cork. 
Rosa micrantha is a pretty little Rose, and should certainly be 
included in a botanical collection ; but it is scarcely worth planting in 
a garden, since neither in appearance nor in fragrance is it so desirable 
from a horticultural point of view as the ordinary Sweet Briar. 
Sir J. E. Smith was the first to distinguish Rosa micrantha in 
England, and he included it in his English Botany as early as 1813. 
It was observed about the same time by Mademoiselle Libert in 
Belgium. In 1889 Sintenis collected it near Trebizond: it had not 
up to that time been known to exist in Asia Minor. 
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