ICOSANDRIA, PENTAGYNIA, 
Small Wild-rose. 
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A very pretty little species, found commonly along the 
fences of fields, and edges of woods and thickets, and in and 
about neglected stone quarries. Seems to delight in a dry soil. 
About fourteen inches, or two feet high. Flowers pale rose- 
red. I2 • Ju.ne, July. 
2, R. germs globose, and peduncles hispid ; pe- corymbosa, 
tides hairy, subaculeate ; stem glabrous, stipu- 
lar-piickles near an inch long; folioles (5-7) 
oblong-lanceolate, acute,. narrowly serrate, glau- 
cous beneath; flowers ^ymbose.— and 
Pursh. 
R. corymbosa, Ehrb, and Muhl. 
R, Virginiana, Du Roi. harbk, 2,p. 353. (Pursh.) 
R. Pennsyivanica, Mich. 
R. Carolina, Pursh. 
Icon. Andrews’s roses. Miss Lawr. roses, 3. 
24. 36. 54. 66. 68. (Pursh.) 
Swamp-rose. 
A very elegant and tall species, frequently attaining a height 
of six feet, Flowers deep-red. In the swampy thickets bor- 
dering the Delaware, particularly the Jersey side, four or five 
miles below the city. Ij . July, August. 
3. R. germs ovate, and peduncles hispid ; petioles mbiginosa. 
and stem prickly ; prickles recurved ; folioles 
ovate, glandulous, hairy beneath. — Mt.^ Kew.^ 
and Willd. arb. 
R. suaveolens, Pursh. 
R. Eglanteria, Du Roi. and Mill. Diet. 
R. suavifolia, Lightfoot. 
R. Eglanteria Americana, Andrews’s roses. 
Icon. Andrews’s roses. 
Sweet-briar. 
No shrub is better known, or more universally admired and 
valued, than this. The spicy fragrance of the leaves is grate- 
ful to every person, and there are few gardens without a shrub 
