I 20 ROSK FAMILY. 



14. ROSA, HOSE. (The ancient Latin name of the Rose.) 



1. WILD ROSES of the country : only the first species cultivated. 

 # Styks lightly ruin fimj in <t ruin/tut ami projecting out of the calyx-cnp. 



R. setigera, PRAIRIE or CLIMIUM. \\'II.D ROSE. Rich ground, W. & 



S. : also planted, and partly the original of HI EKX-OK-TIIE-PRAIRIE, &c. dou- 

 ble roses. Tall-climbing, armed with stout nearly straight prickles, not bristly; 

 leaves with only .'5-5 ovate acute leaflets; the eorymhed flowers produced 

 towards inidMimmer ; stalks and calyx glandular; petals deep rose becoming 

 nearly white. 



# # Styles si inn-nil , ni'-liii/id in tl< i'ii///.i--tn/ie, the stii/mns r/ns/'/n/ its orijice : 

 pi tills row-color : stems nut i/is/iusul to c/imb. 



R. Carolina, SWAMI- HOSE. Wet grounds: stems 4 - 8 high, with 

 hooked prickles and no bristles ; leaflets 5-9, smooth, dull above and pale be- 

 neath ; flowers numerous in the corymb (in summer) ; the ealvx and globular 

 hip glandular-bristly. 



R. lucida, DWARF WILD ROSE. Dry or moist ground: l-2 high, 

 with bristly or slender Straight prickles, 5-9 oblong or almost lanceolate leaf- 

 lets shining above, 1 -3-flowcrcd peduncles, bristly calyx, but the depressed hip 

 nearly smooth : n. all summer. 



R. blanda, EARLY Wn.n ROSE. Rocky banks N. : l-.3 high, with 

 straight weak prickles or none, 5-7 oval or oblong blunt and pale leaflets, 

 sometimes hoarv beneath, large stipules, 1 - .'{-flowered peduncles and the calyx 

 smooth and glaucous, the hip globular: rl. spring or early summer. 



2. BRIER-ROSES, naturalized from Europe, by roadsides and in thickets, or 



sometimes planted : fiou-eriinj in summer. 



R. rubigindsa, SWEET-BRIER. Tall, disposed to climb, armed with 

 strong and hooked and some slender and awl-shaped prickles, the roundish and 

 doubly-serrate small leaflets downy and beset with russet glands beneath, giving 

 the aromatic fragrance ; flowers mostly solitary, pink; hip pear-shaped or obo- 

 vate, crowned with the calvx-lobes. 



R. micrantha, SMALL S. Probably a mere variety of the common Sweet- 

 Brier, with uniform hooked prickles, smaller flower, and more oblong or oval 

 hip, from which the calvx-lobcs fall early. 



R. oanina, Don HOSE. Roadsides E. Penn. and probably elsewhere: 

 resembles Sweet-Brier, but the leaflets smooth or destitute of aromatic glands 

 and simply serrate ; flowers 3 or 4 together, pink or nearly white. 



3. EVERGREEN ROSES, natural i:ed in the Southern States from China: 

 floiL'eriiiy In spring, the flowers nut don!,/, . 



R. Sinica (or L.KVH;\TA), CHEROKEE ROSE. Planted for garden- 

 hedges, ,ve., also run wild S., disposed to climb hiyh, armed with strong hooked 

 prickles, very smooth, with bright green and glossv evergreen leaves of mostly 

 only :t leaflets, and single flowers at the end of the branches, with bristly ealvx- 

 eup ami large pure-while petals. 



R. bracteata, HI;A TED HOSE. In hedges far S., not common ; has 

 downy branches armed with strong hooked prickles, :">-<) roundish leaflets, and 

 single large white flowers on very short peduncle, the calyx covered by leafy 

 bracts. 



4. EXOTIC (l.VKDEN ROSES proper, frnm /\n,-<>/n- mill Asia. Miri'li/ the 

 principal II//H-X : tin 1 i/n-ntci- imrt of tin I/IIH/I/-II i/ni'i/i/i nwi.s ti*i iniifh 

 iniriil In/ rnaaiiii/ inn/ changed l>y rnriiitiiin to be subjects ofbotanirnl study 



* Stylts united in a column iclii<-Ii jimju-ts nut <>f the calyx-cup. All with long 

 rambling s/t<>/s, m- <//s/ms<i/ 1<> climb. 



R. sempervirens, Ev ERG KEEN ROSE of S., not hardy nor holding its 

 leaves X., with coriaceous bright-green oblong leaflets, curved prickles, "and 

 nearly solitary white flowers, not double. The AYRSHIRE ROSE is a more 

 hardy form of it. 



