Eglantine

Eglantine, the old and poetic name of the Sweet Briar (Rosa rubiginosa), is also sometimes applied to other of the smaller-flowered species of rose—e.g. Rosa lutea. The earlier English poets seem to have given the name to any wild rose: Shakespeare means by it sweet briar; Milton seems to confound several quite distinct plants (honey-suckle, &c.) under this name; which has of late been bestowed on the Australian hardy evergreen Rubus eglanteria.