R O S A sepium.
Small-leaved Sweet-briar.
ICOSANDR IA Polygynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. urn-shaped, fleshy, contracted at the
orifice, terminating in 5 segments. Seeds (or
carpels) numerous, bristly, fixed to the inside of
the calyx.
Spec. Char. Prickles numerous, larger curved,
smaller subulate, intermixed with a few setse.
Leaflets small, doubly serrated, hairy, acute at
each end, glandulose beneath. Calyx-segments
and pinnae elongated. Fruit ovate.
Syn. Rosa sepium. Thuil. FI. P a r is :’ Lindl.
Syn. Brit. 101. Borr. in Hook. Brit. FI. 235.
DeCand. FI. Fr. ed. 3. v. 6. 538. Desv. Journ.
de Bot. ann. 1813. v . 2. 116.
R. rubiginosa gg Lindl. Ros. 88.
T h e Rev. W. T. Bree alone appears to have observed
this Rose in Britain. To him we are obliged for specimens
produced in his garden by a plant brought from Bridport,
Warwickshire.
Nearly allied to R . rubiginosa: and R. micrantha, but
especially to the former, with which it agrees in denseness
of growth and in the mixture of curved and straight prickles,
with a few setae, on the stem and branches. It differs from
both in its more humble stature, (about 3 or 4 feet,) and in
the acute base of the leaflets, which are sometimes equally
attenuated to each end, sometimes broader upwards so as
to be obovate with a point. They are usually smaller than
in our figure, somewhat concave, dark green, not shining,
slightly hairy and without glands above, almost shaggy and
copiously glandulose beneath. The leaf-stalks also are