ROSA RUBIGINOSA. SWEETBRIAR ROSE.
EOSA rubiginosa; aculeis aduncis, foliolis rugosis ©pacis, calycibus pcdunculisque hispidis. Lind.
p vulgaris, aculeis fortibus valde intequalibusj stylis viltosis, fructibus ovatis vel oblongis. Lind.
ROSA rubiginosa. Linn. Mant. Vol. 2. p. 564. Willd. Sp. P L ml. 2. p. 1073. Smith FI. B rit;
p . 540. Engl. Bot. t. 9 9 1. Decand. Fl. Fr. ed. 3. ml. 4. p. 445. FI. Gall. Syn. p. 332.
Pers. Syri. PI. ml: 2. p. 49. Alton H ort. K m . ed. 2. ml. 3. p . 264. Lindley, Monograph o f
Roses, p. 86.
ROSA eglanteria.' Mill. Diet. n. 4.. Huds. A n g l.p .2 1 8 . Woods in A c t. Linn. ml. 12.p. 206.
ROSA suavifolia. L ig h t/. Scot. ml. 1. p. 262. Oed. FI. Dan. t. 870.
ROSA spinis aduncis, foliis subtus rubiginosis. Hall. Helv. n. 1103.
ROSA sylvestris odora. The Sweet-briar or Eglantine.. Raii Syri. p. 454.
0 ' micrantha, aculeis ramulorum sequalioribus vel nullis, sepalis ante maturitatem deciduis, stylis
villosiusculis, fructibus oblongis vel obovatis. Lind. 1. c.
ROSA micrantha. Smith Engl. B ot. t. 2490. Decand. Suppl. p. 539. Woods in Act. Linn. ml. 12.
p. 209. • - -- • ■■■-;■' •-
ROSA rubiginosa. Jacq. Austr. ml. 1. p. 31. t. 50.
ROSA suaveolens.. Pursh Fl.Amer. Sept. n. 11.
y. umbellata-, infl'orèscentite ramulis aculeatissimisj fructibus elohgatis; Lind. L c*
ROSA umbellata. Decand. Suppl. FI. Fr. p . 532.
ROSA eglanteria cymosa. Woods in A c t. Linn, l.Ci
Class and Order. ICOSA N D RIA POLYGYNlA.-
[Natural Order. ROSACEJE, Juss., Decand.']
Gen. CiiAR. P e t ala quinque. Calyx urceolatus, quinquefidus, camosus, collo coarctatus. Semina (Pericarpia)
plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa.
Geh Ciiae. Petals five. Calyx urceolate, five-cleft, fleshy, contracted a t the neck. Seeds (Pericarps) many,
hispid, affixed to the inside of the calyx.
D iv V I I I RBBlomosiE. Aculei intequales, nunc setiformes, rare (anunquam?) null!. Jbfiotoovata,vel loblonga,
glandulosa, serraturis divergentibus. Poliola calydna persistentia. Dirmrincmssatus. Surcuh arcuaU. (Mmd.)
Gaules tri- vel quadri-pedales, valde ramosi.
Rami læte virides, flexuosi, aculeis numerosis aduncis,
inæqualibus, sparsis, robustis armati, surculorum
6 ..A nunc parvis glanduliferis.-
Folia sordide viridia, rugosa, suaveolentia, subtus glan-
dulis numerosis rubiginosis obtecta : stipulée dilatât
«, denticulatæ, subtus hirsute : petioli aculeis
robustis inæqualibus : foliola quinque vel septem,
rotundata vel ovata, acuta,, duplicato-sefrata,
subspathulata, supra pleruraque glabra, subtus
• hirsuta, pallida, rugosa.
Flores solitarii vel terni, concavi, pallide rosei.
Bracteze pallidie, lanceolate, acute, concavæ,:paulu-
lum hirsute atque glandulosæ.
P eduncul i hispidi. .
Calycis T ubi ovati, foliolis reflexis pinnatis.
P etala obcordata.
D iscus incrassatus. . . .
Pistilla triginta ad quadraginta. Styli hirsuti, distmcti.
FRUCTUS aurantiaco-coccineus, rotundatus, oblongus
ovatusve, foliolis calycinis ascendentibus coro-
natus.
Stems three to four feet high, much branched.
Branches bright green, flexuose, armed with numerous
unequal, scattered, strong, hooked prickles, which,
on the surculi are small and tipped with a gland.-,
Leaves dull green, rugose, sweet-smelling, covered beneath
with numerous rusty-brown, glands: stipules
dilated, toothed, hairy beneath: petioles
with unequal strong prickles: leaflets five to seven#,
roundish or ovate, acute, doubly serrated, somewhat
spathulate, generally smooth above, beneath
hairy, pale, rough.
Flowers solitary or in threes, concave, pale rose-coloured.
Bracteas pale, lanceolate, acute, concave, slightly hairy
and glandular.
Peduncles hispid.
Tube of the Calyx ovate, with the leaflets reflexed,
pinnate.
Petals obcordate.
D isk thickened.
Pistils thirty to forty. Styles hairy, distinct.
Fruit of an orange-red colour, roundish, oblong or
ovate, crowned with the ascending leaflets of the
calyx.
m u i n fruits. F i° .7 . A single pericarp. Fig. 8. The same cut open, showing the seed. Fig. 9. Embryo, allmoie
or less magnified. Fig. 10. Fruit of var. (2. micrantha.—nat. size.
The more common appearance of the Rose here figured, is a compact, much^^anched,b“sh’,wi!h " n o w X f l v
vroJ f J i r , threes »ill bristly scarlet fruit, and bright green but not shining leaves; these last being powerfully
and^gi atefuhy fragrant. All V i s e characters are, however, liable to considerable variation, and have been the
foundation of a mu^ d“ S B I M H as a species by Sir J . E. Smith, in English Botany; and has