EGLANTINE has been the subject of much discussion, both as to its exact meaning and as to the shrub to which it properly belongs. (See R. C. A. Prior : Popular Names of British Plants.) The eglantine of the herbalists was the sweet-brier, Rosa rubigi nosa, but the name is more properly applied to Rosa Eglanteria. The sweet-brier has become extensively naturalized in eastern North America, growing abundantly in pastures, thickets and road-sides from Nova Scotia and Ontario south-westward to Ten nessee and Kansas. Eglantine is frequently alluded to in the writings of English poets, from Chaucer downwards. Milton, in L'Allegro, is thought by the term "twisted eglantine" to denote the honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum, which is still known as eglantine in north-east Yorkshire.