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R O S A sarmentacea. <
Straggling Rose.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the
orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Petals 5.
Seeds numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of
the calyx.
Spec. Char. Prickles uncinate, uniform. Leaflets
doubly serrated, carinate, very smooth. Calyx-
sements elongated, pinnate. Fruit elliptical.
Syn. Rosa sarmentacea. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. v. 12.
213. Srn. Engl. FI. v. 2. 390. Winch Geogr.
Distrib. ed. 2. 48.
R. glaucophylla. Winch Geogr. Distrib. ed. 1. 45.
R. canina. Curt. Lond. as to the figure.
R. canina (3. Lindl. Syn. Brit. 102.
A COMMON briar in hedges and thickets, of straggling,
and often of feeble growth; but strong plants also are not
rare, which rise to the height of eight or ten feet. The
prickles are hooked, not very numerous, some scattered,
others in substipular pairs. The leaflets vary, in different
plants, through all the gradations from an ovate to a narrow
lanceolate figure, and from a very glaucous to a full and
shining green. They are carinate, free from pubescence,
but with glands in general on their stipules, their footstalks
and their edges, and sometimes, but rarely, a few on
their lower surface. The serratures, often remarkably divaricated,
are not simple, yet not seldom imperfectly double,
as if merely toothed by the marginal glands. The upper
leaves pass, as usual in this tribe of Roses, into bracteas.
The flower-stalks grow in compound clusters, in threes, or
solitary, according to the vigour of the plant and their situation
on the bush. They are either naked, or set with