. Flowers of the field. Botany. ROSE TRIBE 89. and intermixed with bristles. The foli- age is small, leaves with 7-9 leaflets ; flowers solitary, white, very fragrant ; fruit dark purple. Waste places, espe- cially near the sea. The origin of the garden varieties of Scotch Rose.— Fl. May, June, Shrub, 2. R. tomcntosa (Downy-leaved Rose). —Leaflets doubly serrated, and glandu- lar ; calyx pinnate. Distinguished by its stout, long shoots, downy, almost hoary leaves, large white or pale pink 0'1 flowers, 1-3 together, and oblong fruit, covered more or less with small prickles and usually crowned
. Flowers of the field. Botany. ROSE TRIBE 89. and intermixed with bristles. The foli- age is small, leaves with 7-9 leaflets ; flowers solitary, white, very fragrant ; fruit dark purple. Waste places, espe- cially near the sea. The origin of the garden varieties of Scotch Rose.— Fl. May, June, Shrub, 2. R. tomcntosa (Downy-leaved Rose). —Leaflets doubly serrated, and glandu- lar ; calyx pinnate. Distinguished by its stout, long shoots, downy, almost hoary leaves, large white or pale pink 0'1 flowers, 1-3 together, and oblong fruit, covered more or less with small prickles and usually crowned with the cop- iously pinnate calyx-leaves. Hedges Rosa Spinosissuh [Burnet- and thickets, particularly in the north; leaved Ross) common.—Fl. Jrme, July. Shrub. 3. 7?. riihij^inosa (Sweet Brier).—Leaflet doubly serrated, hairy, glandular beneath, mostly rounded at the base ; calyx pinnate, re- maining" attached to the ripe fruit ; fruit pear-shaped when young, and becoming globose, red, and usually smooth ; larger prickles hooked, the smaller ones straight, mixed with bristles. The Eglan- tine of the poets, but not of Milton, whose " twisted Eglantine" is the Woodbine or Honeysuclde. A favourite garden plant, deser- vedly cultivated for the sake of its deliciously fragrant foliage. Bushy places, especially on chalk.—Fl. June, July. Shrub. 4. R. canina (Dog Rose).—Leaves smooth, or slightly hairy ; calyx pinnate, not remaining attached to the fruit ; styles distinct ; prickles hooked ; flowering stems usuafly smooth, and bearing soli- tary flowers or 3 or 4 together. This is the Common Hedge Rose, a flower belonging exclusively to summer, and welcomed at its first appearance scarcely less warmly than the early Primrose of sj)ring. The colour of the flower varies from white to a deep blush, and the leaves also dift'er considerably ; but the above characters will be found to include all the principal vai'ieties. Hedges and bushy places ; abundant.—Fl.
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