ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 
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(Van 2. Small-flowered Sweet Briar, R. micrantha. Woods. Sm. R. m- 
biginosa [3. Lindl. Hook. Furt. 
Hook. FI. Land. 116.,/. 10. E.)— E. Bot. 2490. 
Fruit ovate, somewhat bristly, as are the flower-stalks. Stem stragglings 
with scattered, hooked prickles. Leaflts ovate, acute, clothed beneath 
with rusty-coloured glands. 
Inferior to the true Sweet Briar in scent and compactness, as in the beauty 
of its blossoms, they being less than those of any other British rose. 
Common in hedges and thickets : more so than the better sort. E. Bot. 
E.) 
R. cani'na. (Fruit ovate, smooth or somewhat bristly, like the aggre¬ 
gate flower-stalks: calyx pinnate, deciduous: prickles strongly 
hooked: leaflts simply serrated, pointed, quite smooth. Sm. E.) 
Curt. 299—( E.Bot . 992. E.)— Kniph.7 — FI. Dan. 555 — Blackw. 8— Ludw . 
70— Wale. 5— Park. 1017. 1— J.B. 'ii. 43. 2 —Trag. 986. 2—Ger. 1087.2. 
(Six to twelve feet high, with long trailing or over-arching branches. E.) 
Leaflts two or three pair, with an odd one, pointed; serratures termi¬ 
nated by minute purple glands. Leaf-stalks sheathing; edges beset 
with purple glands. Prickles broad, flat, bowed downwards. Calyx 
segments two, furnished with long teeth on both edges, two without, 
and the fifth with teeth on one edge. Petals red, sometimes nearly 
white; one lobe larger than the other. ( Flowers pale pink, clustered ; 
soon out-topped by the leading shoots of the shrub. Fruit scarlet, oval. 
Calyx deciduous. Leaves dark shining green. The young shoots very 
strong, armed with large hooked prickles. Winch. The Rev. Mr. 
Sutton observes, in E. Bot. that as the fruit of R. rubiginosa is occa¬ 
sionally smooth, so that of R. canina is very rarely a little hispid. 
Professor Hooker states as a remarkable peculiarity in R canina, that 
the further to the north any var. of it is found, the more villous are the 
styles; and the less so as it proceeds southward; these organs being 
quite destitute of hair in Madeira. E.) 
( R . Forsteri. Sm. R. collina (3, and y. W oods, differs chiefly from this 
species in having the mid-rib hairy ; a trivial, and probably variable dis¬ 
tinction. R. bractescens. Woods, has also been referred to R. canina. E.) 
Dog Rose. Hep Tree. Wild Briar. (Canker Rose, in Devonshire. 
<c O bonie was yon rosy brier. 
That blooms sae far frae haunt o’man, 
And bonie she, and ah, how dear 1 
It shaded frae the e’enin sun. 
Yon rose-buds in the morning dew 
How pure, amang the leaves sae green, 
But purer was the lover’s vow 
They witness’d in their shade yestreen. 
All in its rude and prickly bower. 
That crimson rose, how sweet and fair! 
But love is far a sweeter flower 
Amid life’s thorny path o’care.” 
The bedeguar frequently observed on this species is called Sweet'briar Spunge ; and, as in 
other instances, the original depredator having been destroyed by the remorseless Ichneu - 
man, it becomes the cradle of that fly. E.) 
