630 | ROSACEAE 
after anthesis reflexed and deciduous: petals pink, 2-3 dm. long: mature 
A n depressed- i: 1-1.5 em. long.—Moist thickets, low eee. 
Ne 
shores, and swamp-margin vari ous provinces, Ala. to Ark., Ont 
nd Ya. 
4. R. obtusiuscula Rydb. Stems about 1 m. tall, dark-brown, practically 
unarmed: le ph rachis sparingly pubescent, unarmed: leaflets 5 7; blades 
ee 1-4 em. long, rounded at the apex, crenate, dark-green, glabrous on 
both sides or “sparingly pubescent beneath: flowers 1-4 together: pedicels 
id o glandular: sepals lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, 1.5-2 cm. 
long, rather copiously a hispid, spreading and at last deciduou 
Roue "enn um depressed-globose, 8-10 mm. long, p d glandular 
hispid.—Wooded slopes ad river-banks, Appalachian Valley, T 
15. R. Lyoni Pursh. Stems 3-15 dm. tall, glabrous, more or less bristly, 
i aaa on the young shoots, the prickles infrastipular, spreading, usually 
r and e, or rarely stouter and then slightly flattened below: leaf- 
ue villous, sometimes p or glandular-dentate: leaflets 5- 2 bos es 
oval to Vu p qiue 1.5-5 e ong, usually acute at both ends arely 
obtuse at the apex, regula rly ei the a ones short- ‘petiolaled, oed 
thin and en, Speringly pubeseent or glabrate above, deeidedly villous ui 
neath: flow and corymbose or so e pedicels glandular- s sepal 
lanceolate, caudate acuminate 1.5-2 long, glandular-hispid on the ba e 
tomentose within, Da them ud with linear or subulate lobes, after 
A eflexed a ds deciduous: petals a 2-2.5 em. long: 
nya anu Uu. dente globose, 8-10 m m. long, more or less BR edi 
hispid or rarely glabrous.—Woods and , prairies various provinces N 
Coastal Plain, Ga. to Ark., Kans., Minn., and N. Y. 
16. R. ra ii Stems 3-10 dm. tall, slender, glabrous, usually very bristly 
when young, t P gis straight, paired, d infrastipular: leaf- 
raehis sparin Es pubesee r gla e s, rarely wi a few priekles: leaflets 
usually 5, rarely 7; bl s ae Jon el ipti o or * laneeolate elliptic, aie) 
oval, or oblanceolate, glabrous, but not Mad shining abov ually somewhat 
paler and pubesce the or glabrate beneath, B ae en regulari 
serrate with as ous pod eee acute at both ends or obtuse at 
e -petiolulate: dd. usually b pedieels o hispid: us 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, lon ng, i usually y glandular on the 
RES to mentos se within, all or i: aes the outer ones with linear or subulate 
chee reflexed after anthesis a nd soon deciduous: petals pink, 2—2.5 em. long: 
mature hypanthium To or a little depressed, about 8 mm. long, cones ular- 
hispid. [R. hum Marsh.]—(Low-ROSE. WILD-ROSE. CAROLINA-ROSE 
PASTURE- m s woods, Tw thickets, and rocky soil, various prov- 
inces, Fla. to Tex., Kans., Min and N. S. 
17. R. serrulata Raf. Stems 3-10 dm. long, glabrous, but bristly, especially- 
n the young shoots, the prickles slender, infrastipular, straight, terete: leaf- 
id, otherwi abrous or nearly lea u 
be 
dentieulate or glandular-ciliate: flowers solitary: pedicels E or less glandu- 
lar-hispid: sepals lan Prae gla aped du PM n the back, tomentose within, 
caudate-acuminate, 2-2. long, s of mom usually vith as or 
e ‘appendages, after ilc Ens nd soon deciduou are Beni 
1, hypanthium globose or slightly depressed, 10-15 mm. 
ong: 
broad pander hispid —Ro adsides and thickets, various provinces, Fla. to 
, Ont and Mass.—( Mez.) 
