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7. Rosa pumila rubra Austriaca. The single dwarfe red Rofe of Austria.
This dwarfe Rose groweth not much above halfe a yard high, with slender greene stemmes, set with few or no thornes below, but furnished up higher with many, having whitish greene leaves upon them like the ordinary red Rose and grayish underneath five or seven set together upon a stalke : at the toppes of the branches come forth very great bearded huskes, wherein stand large flowers made of five leaves a peece, somewhat sweet red at the first but decaying with standing, growing much more pale before they fall away, with yellow threads in the middle, after which come the fruit which are red as the others but greater then any of those before declared, formed somewhat more like unto a peare then others.
...The Place...the sixt and seventh from Austria....

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3. Rosa sylvestris Russica. The wild bryer of Muscovia.
This wild bryer hath sundry reddish yellow stalkes rising from the roote sporred or rather bunched out as it were with blisters in divers places with thornes set thereon like a Bryer or wilde Rose; the leaves are not many but small like the wilde hedge Bryer or rather smaller, and turning red in Summer: the Roses are single and small of a deepe incarnate colour.
...The Place...the third came from Muscovy...

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1. Rosa sylvestris inodora sive Canina. The ordinary wilde Bryer bush.
The wilde Bryer bush groweth of itselfe in the hedges very high, with upright hard wooddy stemmes covered with a grayish barke especially the old ones, set with sharp ethornes up to the toppes but not so thicke as the sweete Bryer, having divers leaves somewhat larger thereon and not so greene on the upper side nor so grayish underneath as the other, the middle ribbe whereof hath divers small crooked thornes and without any sent at all, the flowers stand at the toppes of the branches divers set together, of a whitish blush colour, made of five round pointed leaves somewhat longer then the Sweet bryer or Eglantine Rose, standing in such like huskes as they or other Roses doe ; after the flowers are past come the fruit somewhat long and round, of a yellowish red colour or reddish yellow colour when it is ripe, having a soft sweetish pulpe under the skinne, and seedes lying therein also, which berries are much devoured by the poorer sort of women and children that eate them gladly: the roote runneth deepe and farre in the ground growing somewhat great. Upon this Rose as well as upon the Eglantine is often found a burre or ball of browne threads, and I have often seene it upon the greater Apple Rose which is extant in my former Booke.

2. Rosa sylvestris odorato carneo flore. The wilde blush Bryer Rose.
This wild Bryer Rose is so like the former that it is hardly discerned from it, eyther for the height of the stem or store of thornes or smalnesse of the leaves but onely for the flowers which are somewhat larger, and of a deeper blush or pale purple colour somewhat sweet withall.

...The Place. The first two grow in the hedges of our Land every where almost...

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4. Rosa sylvestris Virginensis. The Virginia Bryer Rose.
The Virginia Bryer Rose hath divers as great stemmes and branches as any other Rose, whose young are greene and the elder grayish, set with many small prickles and a few great thornes among them, the leaves are very greene and shining small and almost round, many set on a middle ribbe one against another somewhat like unto the single yellow Rose: the flowers stand at the toppes of the branches consisting of five small leaves, of a pale purple or deepe incarnate colour like unto those of the sweet brier, which fall away quickly as they and others doe.
...The Place....the fourth from Virginia...

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10. Rosa simplex pumila sine spina. The single Dwarfe Rose without thornes.The single Dwarfe Rose without thornes.
This Dwarfe Rose also groweth very low, even almost upon the ground with greene stalkes without any thorne thereon, set with small winged leaves, so small that they seeme scarse to be leaves of a Rose : the flower is small and of a pale reddish colour and single, in some places very sweete,and in others little or nothing,  flowring also in some places both in the Spring and Autumne.
The Place ....and the last neare unto Lyons in France upon Pilats hill there.

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5. Rosa campestris flore albo odore , The single sweete white Rose.
This single Bryer Rose hath wooddy stemmes about two cubits high, set as thicke with sharpe thornes as eyther the common wilde Bryer or Eglantine is,and set with the like leaves but not so greene,at the tops of whole greene branches stand usually but one flower a peece, consisting of five white leaves reasonabie large and of a sweete sent, with divers yellow threads in the middle : in their places come such like round and short heads or berries as are in other Roses, but are blacke when they are ripe and not red with white seedes lying in flockes of downe as others doe. 
...The Place....the fifth from Germany in sundry places...

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8. Rosa Pimpinella sive Pomifera minor. The small Burnet Rose or Pimpinell Rofe
This small Rose seldome riseth above a foote high being of two sorts,whereof the one hath but few thornes on the stalkes,and the other full of small thornes (both which are oftentimes found in one ground, but the thonrny more frequent) set with long winged stalkes of leaves, being many small round greenish leaves set one against another upon the stalke finely dented about the edges, seeming like unto a Burnet leafe for the forme and number set together: the flowers are single small and white without any sent, after which come small round heads but blacke when they are ripe full of seede as in other Roses.
...The Place...the eight is found in divers places of our owne Land both in barren heathy grounds, and by woods and hedges sides...

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9 . Rosa pumila campestris alba. The Dwarfe single white Rose
This is one of the smalleft Roses scarse rising a foote above ground, being set with fmall thornes and leaves according to the proportion of the plant and the wildnesse of the kind, the flowers are white and small giving heads and seede like the rest: the roote creepeth about more then others.
...The Place...the on some of the hills among the Switzers....

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6 . Rosa sylvestris Austriaca flore phœniceo. The VermillionRofe of Auftrie
The younger branches of this Rose are slender and reddish, the elder brownish gray, set with divers thornes but not very thicke great or sharpe: the leaves are somewhat larger then those of the single yellow Rose else not much unlike: the flowers are single and as large as of that yellow Rose whereof I take it to bee a species but differing in colour for this is of an excellent Orenge tawny colour,with an eye of Vermillion cast over it and of a paler yellow on the outside, after which succeede the fruite.
...The Place...the sixt and seventh from Austria....