(1597)  Page(s) 1087 -1088.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa canina inodora. The Brier Rose, or Hep tree. The Brier Bush or Hep tree, is also called Rosa Canina, which is a plant so common and well knowne, that it were to small purpose to use many words in the description therof; for even children with great delight eate the berries thereof when they may be ripe, make chaines and other pretie gewgawes of the fruite: cookes and gentlewomen make Tarts and such like dishes for pleasure therof, and therefore this shall suffice for the description.
...The Brier or Hep Tree is called sylvestris Rosa, the wilde Rose: in high Dutch Wilden Rosen: in French Roses Sauvages: Plinie in his 8. booke and 25. chapter saith, that it is Rosa Canina, Dogs Rose; of divers Canina sentis, or Dogs Thorne: in English Brier bush, and Hep tree: the last hath beene touched in the description.

(1597)  Page(s) 1079 - 1080, 1081-82.  
 
p. 1079 plate: Rosa provincialis sive Damascena. The Province, or Damaske Rose.
p. 1080: The common Damask Rose in stature, prickley branches, and in other respects is like the White Rose; the especiall difference consisteth in the colour and smell of the flowers; for these are of a pale red colour, and of a more pleasant smell, and fitter for meate or medicine.
....The Damaske Rose is called of the Italians Rosa incarnata: in high Dutch Leibfarbige Roosen: in low Dutch Provencie Roose: of some Rosa provincialis or Rose of Provence: in French of some Melesia, the Rose of Melaxo a citie in Asia, from whence some have thought it was first brought into these parts of Europe.
....The iuice of these Roses, especially of Damaske, doth move to the stoole, and maketh the belly soluble: but most effectually of the Muske Roses, next to them is the iuice of the Damaske, which is more commonly used.

(1597)  Page(s) 1086.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Cinamomea pleno flore. The double Cinnamom Rose....The Canell or Cinnamon Rose, or the Rose smelling like Cinnamom, hath shootes of a browne colour, fower cubits high [72"] , beset with thorney prickles, and leaves like unto those of Eglantine, but smaller and greener, of the savour or smell of Cinnamon, whereof it tooke his name, and not of the smell of his flowers (as some have deemed) which have little or no fragrance at all: the flowers be exceedingly double, and yellow in the middle, of a pale red colour, and sometimes of a carnation: the roote is of a woodie substance.

(1597)  Page(s) 1084 - 1085.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Moschata multiplex. The double Muske rose. The double Muske Rose differeth not from the precedent [single Musk], in leaves, stalkes, and rootes, not in the colour of the flowers, or sweetenes thereof, but onely in the doubleness of the flowers, wherein consisteh the difference.

(1597)  Page(s) 1085.  
 
Rosa Holosericea. The velvet Rose....groweth alwaies very low, like unto the red Rose, having his branches covered with a certaine hairie or prickly matter, as fine as haires, yet not so sharpe or stiffe, that it will harme the most tender skin that is: the leaves are like the leaves of the white Rose: the flowers growe at the top of the stalks, doubled with some yellowe thrums in the midst, of a deepe and blacke red colour, resembling red crimson velvet, whereupon some have called it the Velvet Rose: when the flowers be vaded, there followe red berries full of hard seedes, wrapped in a downe or woollines like the others.

(1597)  Page(s) 1087 - 1088.  Includes photo(s).
 
rosa sylvestris odora The Eglantine, or sweete Briar. ...doth oftentimes grow higher then all the kindes of Roses; the shootes of it are hard, thicke, and woodie; the leaves are glittering, and of a beautifull greene cvolour, of smell most pleasant: the roses are little, five leafed, most commonly whitish, seldome tending to purple, of little or no smell at all: the fruite is long, of colour somewhat red, like a little Olice Stone, and like the little heads or berries of the others, but lesser then those of the garden; in which is contained rough cotton, or hairie downe and seede, folded and wrapped up in the same, which is small and hard. There be likewise found about the slender shoots heerof, rounde, folt, and hairie spunges, which we call Brier bals, such as grow about the prickles of the Dog Rose.
....The Eglantine Rose which is Cynorrhodi, or , a kinde Dogs Rose, and rosa sylvestris, the wilde Rose: in low Dutch Eglantier: in French Esglentine, and as Ruelleus testifieth englenterium, who laso suspecteth it to be Cynosbaton, or Canirubus, of which Doiscorides hath written in these wordes; Cynosbatus, or Canirubus, which some say Oxycantha, is a shrub growing like a tree, full of prickles, with a white flower, long fruite like an olive stone; red when it is ripe and downie within: in English Eglantine, or sweete Brier.
[Plate shows R. canina from "New Kreuterbuch" of Tabernaemontanum.]

(1597)  Page(s) 1081 - 1082.  Includes photo(s).
 
. The great Holland Rose, commonly called the great Provence Rose.
...The great Rose, which is generally called the great Province Rose, which the Dutch men cannot endure; for say they, it came first out of Holland, and therefore to be called the Holland Rose, but by all likelyhood it came from the Damaske Rose, as a kinde thereof, made better and fairer by art, which seemeth to agree with truth.

(1597)  Page(s) 1078 - 1079, 1081.  Includes photo(s).
 
The white Rose hath very long stalkes of a woodie substance, set or armed with divers sharpe prickles: the branches whereof are likewise full of prickles, whereon do growe leaves consisting of five leaves for the most part, set upon a middle rib by couples; the od leafe standing at the point of the same, and every one of those small leaves somewhat snipt about the edges, somewhat rough, and of an overworne greene colour: from the bosome whereof shoote foorth long footestalkes, whereon do growe very faire double flowers, of a white colour and very sweete smell, having in the middle a few yellow threads or chives; which is being past, there succeedeth a long fruit greene at the first, red when it is ripe, and stuffed with a downie choking matter, wherein is contained seede as hard as stones. The roote is long, tough, and of a woodie substance.
...The white Rose is called Rosa alba: in English the white Rose: in high Dutch Weisz Roosen: in lowe Dutch Witte Rossen: in French Blanche: of Plinie Spineola Rosa, or Rosa Campana.

(1597)  Page(s) 1079 - 1080.  
 
p. 1079 plate: Rosa provincialis minor. The lesser Damaske Rose.
p. 1080: The other [Damask] differeth not, but is altogether lesser: the flowers and fruit are like: the use in phisicke also agreeth with the precedent.

(1597)  Page(s) 1080.  Includes photo(s).
 
3 The common Damaske Rose in stature, prickley branches, and in other respectes is like the White Rose; the especiall difference consisteth in the colour and smell of the flowers; for these are of a pale red colour, and of a more pleasant smell, and fitter for meate or medicine.