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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNiA. Rosa. 
close together,, quite free from pubescence. Stipidce either narrow or 
dilated, of nearly equal breadth. Petiols setigerous and prickly. Leaflets 
about seven, bright green, flat, simply serrated, orbicular, or nearly so. 
Flowers solitary, without bracteas, cyathiform, blush-coloured, (white, or 
cream-coloured, E.) Peduncles naked, or rough with glands or setoe , as 
are the calycine segments, which are short and entire. Tube ovate, or 
nearly round, naked. Petals emarginate, concave. Disk not thickened. 
Styles villous, distinct. Fruit ovate, or nearly round, black or dark 
purple, crowned by the connivent or somewhat spreading segments of 
the calyx. Lindl. Fruit sometimes slightly spinous. The plant occa¬ 
sionally very diminutive, and rarely exceeding two feet in height. E.) 
Burnet Rose. Pimpernel Rose. (Welsh: Mwccog. R. spinosissima. 
Linn. Sp. PI. R. pinipinellifolia. Linn. Syst. Nat. E.) Heaths and 
sandy places. Hedges near Yarmouth, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Per- 
ran Downs, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Hedges and ditch banks about 
Worcester. Dr. Stokes. Frequent in the sandy country about Bewdlev. 
(North shore, Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Plentifully on the Eastern Cliffs 
of Portland. Pulteney. By Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh. Lightf. 
Frequent on hilly ground in the neighbourhood of Warwick. Perry. In 
woods about Derwent-water. Mr. Winch In hedges near Teignmouth. 
E.) P. June—July.* 
Var. 2. (R. Ciphiana. E.) Blossoms red, striped with white. Sibb. Scot, 
t. 2. Lightf. (Fruit red. Winch. E.) 
Ciphian Rose. Links at Cockenzie, near Edinburgh. Maughan. (In 
several hedges in the parishes of Llangaffo, and Llanddeinier, Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot, E.) 
Var. 3. Fruit-stalks prickly : flowers cream-colour, changing to white. 
(The stems appear to be still more strongly armed with spines than the 
common kind. E.) 
Specimen from Lanscale Haws, Lancashire; sent by Mr. Atkinson, who 
informs me that it covers several acres of sand, to the exclusion of every 
other vegetable. (The Editor has recently received the same from the 
hills near the sea at Aberystwith. E.) 
(R. rubel/la. Fruit globose, somewhat bristly : flower-stalks bristly: 
stem spreading, clothed with straight, slender spines: leafits 
elliptical, smooth : segments of the calyx entire. 
E. Bot. 2521. 
* The ripe fruit is eaten by children, and has a grateful sub-acid taste. The juice, 
diluted with water, dyes silk and muslin of a peach colour; with the addition of alum a deep 
violet; but it has little effect on woollen or linen. Its dwarfish growth, and the sin¬ 
gular elegance of its little leaves, which resemble those of the upland Burnet, entitle it to 
a place in the flower garden. Indeed it would appear to be a favourite with the French 
florists, for M. Desportes informs us they have no less than 123 distinct varieties. 
(The charms of the Ciphian var. having elicited an Ode Laudatory from Sir R. Sibbald; 
we extract a descriptive portion :— 
<c Multiplex qualis Rosa splendidisque 
Lineis albis decorat Ruborem 
Caryophyllis, nitet in Tulipis 
Purpura qualis. 
Ne terat saltu petulante Vaga 
Ales, audax arripiat manusve, 
Spiculis densis Rosa tuta Saev uni 
Vulnerat hostem.” &c. E.) 
