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rous prickles ; common on the borders of fields, and 
among brushwood in a sandy soil. 
Ros. Canina, Common Dog Rose, Wild Brier, or 
Hep-Tree ; with ovate fruit, smooth peduncles, and 
prickles on the stem hooked ; very common in hedges 
and among brushwood. 
Ros. Ruhiginosa, Sweet Brier, or Eglantine ; with 
ovate fruit, rough peduncles, and prickles on the stem 
hooked ; in mountainous places, but well known in the 
garden for its charming fragrance. 
Numerous other species of the rose have been de- 
scribed, and equally numerous varieties have been pro- 
duced by culture. The Yellow Rose is a native of 
Germany ; the Moss Rose is supposed by some to be a 
variety of the Provence, and by others of the Hundred* 
leaved Rose ; and the China Rose, Semperjlorens , 
which is seldom without flowers, is a fine ornament of 
the green-house and the parlour. 
Rubus. Gen. char. — CaL five-cleft ; petals five; 
berry superior, composed of one-seeded acini. 
Rub. Idcsus, Raspberry; with leaves five pinnated 
and ternate, woolly underneath, foot-stalks channelled, 
stem prickly ; common in woods, and cultivated in the 
garden. 
Rub. Fruticosus , Common Bramble ; with leaves 
about five together, woolly underneath, leaflets foot- 
stalked, prickles hooked, stem angular, and calyx re« 
fleeted. One of the most common plants. 
Rub. Chamcemorus 9 Mountain Bramble ; with sim- 
ple lobed leaves, one-flowered, unarmed stem, and 
segments of the calyx ovate ; not uncommon on the 
