ROSACE^E 



ROSACES ROSE FAMILY 



Rosa Carolina, L. 

 Rose-pink Wild Rose, 



Swamp Rose, 



June- August Carolina Rose, 



Hip-tree. 



Rosa: Latin for a rose. 

 Carolina: Latin for Carolinian. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: thicket borders of swamps. 



THE BUSH: erect; one foot to seven feet high; much 

 branched; the stems armed with distinct, stout, usually 

 recurved spines; the branches with similar, not very 

 abundant prickles. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; compoundly divided into five to 

 nine (usually seven) leaflets, which vary considerably from 

 oval to obovate, even with a lanceolate tendency; pale, 

 acute or acutish at each end; generally on short stems: 

 finely serrate; stipules narrow. 



THE FLOWERS: in a corymb or rarely solitary; sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, hairy; petals early deciduous. 



THE FRUIT: achenes, enclosed in a berry-like "haw." 



The most striking illustration, perhaps, of the brilliancy 

 of colouring among Nantucket wild flowers, is the Wild 

 Roses. Masses of these deeply rose-coloured, sweet- 

 scented flowers, that have brilliantly yellow stamens 

 crowded at the petal's base, pass along the roadsides, 

 border the ponds or wander over the Commons. The 

 flowers are satisfying in the house, too, for while the full- 

 blown blossoms seldom reach home intact, the buds come 

 out exceptionally well in water. 



This is the most common rose of damp places. Its few 

 prickles are like spines; they are stout and usually curved. 



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