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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
WILSON’S ROSE. (R. Wilsoni, Hooker.) 
This species is very nearly allied to the last; but its flowers are of a beautiful dark pink, and its foliage 
takes a red hue towards the end of summer or the beginning of autumn. The fruit is of a brilliant orange 
scarlet. 
SABINE’S ROSE. (R. Sabini, Woods.) 
This is another nearly allied species : it is one of the largest and handsomest of the British Roses. The stem 
frequently grows eight or ten feet high ; the flowers are very large, and the leaflets large, handsome, and doubly 
serrated. R. Doniana is a variety of this Rose. 
§ 3.— Prickles nearly straight, and equal. Setce none. Leaflets with diverging serratures, and turpentine glands. Sepals remaining 
upon the fruit. Disk thick , closing up the orifice of the tube. ( Lindley.) 
3. —THE DOWNY-LEAVED ROSE. (Rosa tomentosa, Smith.) 
Synonymes. —R. foetida, Batard; R. scabriuscula, Eng. Bot. ; | Specific Character. — Root-shoots arched. Sepals compound, 
R. subglobosa, Smith. diverging. Leaflets oblong, downy on both sides. Fruit hispid, or 
Engravings.— Eng. Bot., t. 990 ; 2nd ed., t. 711. naked. (Lindley.) 
Description, &c. —This Rose is very common in hedges and thickets ; and though it varies considerably in 
its appearance, yet it may always be distinguished by its long arched shoots, and the numerous segments of its 
calyx. It produces its very elegant pale pink flowers in June and July. 
4.—THE SOFT-LEAVED ROSE. (Rosa mollis, Smith.') 
Synonymes. —R. villosa, Smith, not of Linnceus ; R. pulchella, 
Woods; R. heterophylla, Woods; R. resinosa , Lindl. 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 2459 ; 2nd ed., t. 710. 
Specific Character. —Root-shoots erect, coloured. Sepals nearly 
simple, converging. Leaflets ovate, downy on both sides. Fruit 
hispid or naked. (Lindley.) 
Description, &c. —This species is very nearly allied to R. tomentosa, and it resembles that species in the 
leaves being downy on both sides. The shoots, however, are never arched, and the segments of the calyx 
are not divided. R. sylvestris is probably only a variety of this species. 
§ 4.— Prickles very unequal, sometimes tipped with glands, very rarely absent. Leaflets ovate or oblong , usually\ fragrant and 
glandular, with diverging serratures. Sepals persistent. Disk thick, closing up the orifice of the tube. (Lindley.) 
5.— THE SWEET BRIAR, OR EGLANTINE. (Rosa kubiginosa, Lin.) 
Synonymes. — R. eglanteria, Hudson; R. micrantha, Smith; 
R. umbellata, Leers ; R. inodora , Agardh ; R. Borreri, Woods; 
R. dmnetorum, Eng. Bot. 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 991; 2nd ed., t. 714; and our fig. 
2, in PI. 34. 
Specific Character. — Prickles much hooked. Leaflets rugose, 
not lucid, roundish-ovate, with fragrant brown glands at their margin, 
and on the underside. Calyxes and peduncles hispid. (Lindley.) 
Description, &c. —Every one knows the Sweet Briar, as its delightful fragrance makes it a general 
favourite. It is common in hedges in every part of the kingdom, but it is most abundant in the southern 
counties in open, dry situations, and where the soil is chalky or sandy. It forms a compact, dense bush, with 
ascending shoots. The Sweet Briar has always been a favourite with the poets, and the following pretty lines 
are admirably descriptive of it:— 
“ The breeze of spring, the summer’s western wind, 
Robs of its odours not a sweeter flower, 
In all the blooming waste it leaves behind, 
Than that the Sweet Briar yields it; and the shower 
Wets not a Rose that buds in beauty’s bower 
One half so lovely.” 
