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195.  Rosa spinosissima.  With Bot. Arrang. ii. 465. — Var. α inermis; Flower-stalks and fruit smooth: — β. Hystrix; Flower-stalks and fruit bristly: — γ. ciphiana: Flowers red.  The Cat-hep. — Sandy sea-banks, deans, and hedges.  The only Rose found wild in Holy Island.  The two first varieties are common, and from them are derived the numerous varieties of the Scotch Rose cultivated in gardens.  The variety with rose-coloured or pink flowres, the flower-stalks hispid, and the leaflets obovate-retuse, grows among whins in Bushiel dean, J. Hardy; and in the Snail's-cleugh, a ravine which divides Berwickshire from East-Lothian above Craneshaws.  It is the Rosa ciphiana of Sir Robert Sibbald; and its beauty seduced him to sing its praise in a Sapphic ode more distinguished for its length than for poetry.  See Scot. Illustr. p. ii. lib. i. p. 61.  June, July.