Tribe 9. The Theater of Tlants. CHAP,a6„ iIOI7_ 
RefaDamaften*-, 
The Damasked 
I. Rofa fylve/lrts inodura five Canina, 
The ordinary wilde Bry«r bufti. 
1. Roftfjheftrisinodorafive C<wiHA t The ordinary wilde Bryer bufli.' 
The wilde Bryer bufhgrowethofitfelfeinthe hedges very high, with upright hard wooddy lle'mmes cove¬ 
red with a grayiih barke cfpecially the old ones, fet with fharpethornesup to thetoppesbut notfo tnicke ns 
the fweete Bryer, having divers leaves fomewhat larger thereon and not lb grecneonthe upperfidenorfonray- 
ifh underneath as the other, themiddleribbe whereof hath divers fmall crooked thornes and without any fent 
at all, the flowers (land at the toppes of the branches divers fet together, of a whitilh blufh colour, made of five 
round pointed leaves fomewhat longer then the Syyeet bryeror Eglantine Role, (landing indicia like huskes as 
they or other Rofes doc ; after the (lowers are pad come the fruit fomewhat long and round, of a yellowifh red 
colour or reddifh yellow colour when it is ripe, having a foft fweetifh pulpe under the skinne, and feedes lying 
therein alfo, which berries are much devoured by the poorer (brt of women and children that eate them gladly •• 
tberoote runneth deepe and farre in the ground growing fomewhat great. Vpon this Rofe as well as upon the Rofamn 
Eglantine is often found a burre or ball of browne threads, and I have often feene it alio upon the greater Apple f rJ! 
Rofe which is extant in my former Booke. spongioid 
2. RofafjlvolirUodamtocurneoflare. The wilde blufh Bryer Role. Viim. 
This wild Bryer Rofe isfolikethe former that it is hardly difeerned from it, eyther for the height of the flem 
or llore of thornes or fmalneffe of the leaves but onely for the flowers which ate fomewhat larger, and of a 
deeper blufh or pale purple colour fomewhat lwcet withall. 
3. RofafjlveJlrii RttJJica. The wild bryer of Mvfoovi-i. 
This wild bryer hath fundry reddifh yellow (lalkes rifing from the roote ipotred or rather bunched out as ic 
were with bliflers in divers places with thornes fet thereon like a Bryer or wilde Rofe; the leaves are not many 
but fmall like the wilde hedge Bryer or rather fnailler, and turning red in Summer: theRofes are Angle and (mall 
of a deepe incarnate colour, 
4. RofafylveJiruVirgincnfu. The Virginia Bryer Rofe.. 
The Virgmit Bryer Rofe hath divers as great (lemmesandbranch.es as any other Rofe,whofeyoiang are greene 
and the elder grayifh, fet with many fmall pricKes and a few great thornes among them, the leaves are very 
greene and fhining fmall and almoll round, many fet on a middle ribbe one againfl another fomewhat like unto 
the (ingle yellow Rofe: the flowers (land at the toppes of the branches confiding of five fmall leaves, of a pale 
purple or deepe incarnate colour like unto thofe of the fweet brier, which fall away quickly as they and 
others doe. ■ 1 2 3 4 S. 
S. Rofucampcflriiflore MooAoro , The fingle fweete white Rofe. 
This (ingle Bryer Rofe hath wooddy llemmes about two cubits high, fet as thicke with fharpe thornes as ey¬ 
ther the common wilde Bryer or Eglantine is,and fet with the like leaves but notlo greene,at the tops of whole 
greene branches ftand ufually but one flower a peece, confiding of five white leaves reafonabie large and of a 
fweete fent, with divers yellow threads in the middle : in their places comefuch like round and fhort heads or 
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