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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 
resinous globules. Leaf-stalks rough with hairs, and minute prickles, 
and, as are the floral-leaves, beset with minute glands on pedicles. Fruit 
nearly globular, beset, especially at the base, with a few small prickles. 
Fruit-stalks with very minute prickles. Blossoms red. R. eglanteria 
differs in growing taller, having straight prickles, and blossoms large, 
yellow, and scentless. Linn. (This latter remark is proved by the great 
expounder of the learned Swede, to refer to the Yellow Briar, of which 
the Austrian Rose, R. bicolor of Jacquin, is a transient variety.) Much 
branched, four or five feet high. Fruit orange red. E.) 
Sweet Briar. Eglantine. (Irish: Feirdriss. Welsh: Rhoslwyn per. 
E.) (B. rubiginosa. Linn. Mant. Sm. Hook. Willd. Purt. Jacq. 
Hull. Lindl. a. R. suavifolia. Lightf. Oed. R. odoratissima. Scop. 
R. eglanteria . Linn. Sp. PI. by error in Ed. 1 ; and see Afzelius, in Annals 
of Botany, vol. ii. Huds. DuRoi. Woods. Winch. E.) Hedges and heaths. 
Hedges, Norfolk, but not frequent. Mr. Woodward. Between Dudley 
and Tipton. In Mr. Terne’s garden, Worcester, from a gravel pit, near 
Claines church. Dr. Stokes. (At Battersea. Mr. Sowerby, in E. Bot. 
Box Hill, Surry. Mr. Winch. On the banks of the Dee, undoubtedly 
wild. Mr. Anderson. Near Kimbolton; and Galley-wood Common, 
Essex. Mr. W. Christy. In Eastwear Bay, Kent. Mr. G. E. Smith. 
Ahout Chudleigh. Rev. J. P. Jones. Alne Hills, above the village, near 
Alcester. Purton. Near Llysdulas, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Sea side 
between Caroline Park and Cramond. Dr. Greville. Not originally 
indigenous to the north, and only met with on ballast hills, or occasionally 
in hedges. Mr. Winch. E.) S. June—July.** 
* (The refreshing fragrance, especially after vernal showers, both of the leaves and 
flowers of this species, causes it to be much esteemed. Double flowering and evergreen 
varieties have been introduced in our gardens. The Parisian floriculturists have produced 
no fewer than fifty-seven sorts. It bears clipping well, and knits together so as to form 
an agreeable secondary hedge. But Sir Walter, with perhaps better taste, deprecates 
this practice:— 
“ Cherish the tulip, prune the vine. 
But freely let the woodbine twine, 
And leave untrimmed the Eglantine Mann. Cant. 3. 
In its more luxuriant native grace, it has for ages attracted the favourable notice of 
poets:— 
——■- (t The wild harp, which silent hangs 
By silver Avon’s holy shore,” 
was frequently attuned to its praise. The bower, 
“ Oer-canopied with luscious woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses, and with Eglantine 
or, more affecting] y, 
* * * * « Fidele, 
I’ll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack 
* * # * * 
* * * * no, nor 
The leaf of Eglantine , whom not to slander, 
Out-sweeten’d not thy breath.” 
And thus Shenstone :<— 
if Come, gentle air! and while the thickets bloom, 
*■ * * * # 
Convey the woodbine’s rich perfume. 
Nor spare the svveet-leav’d Eglantine 
But no child of feeling or of song has more delicately assimilated its charms than Burns :— 
