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5. Rosa gallica L. French Rose. Stem with straight 

 slender prickles; leaflets usually 5, elliptic, cordate at the base, 

 doubly glandular-serrate; flowers double, red and large. Lake 

 County. 



6. Rosa setigera Mx. Prairie Rose. Stems climbing, with 

 stout, rather straight prickles; leaflets 3-5, usually 3, ovate, 

 sharply serrate; petals rose-colored, sometimes white. Clarke, 

 Fayette, Jefferson, Greene, Williams, Hocking, Eric, Perry, 

 Clermont, Muskingum, Montgomery, Lucas, Madison, Tuscara- 

 was, Harrison, Butler, Lorain, Highland, Auglaize, Defiance, 

 Gallia, Logan, Shelby, Miami. 



18. Agrimonia. Agrimony. 



Erect perennial herbs, leaves with large stipules, odd pinnate, 

 with smaller leaf segments between the larger ones; flowers 

 yellow, borne in narrow racemes; sepals 5; petals 5; stamens 

 5-15; carpels 2; fruit with 1-2 dry achenes. 



1. Leaflets 11-17, lanceolate to narrowly lancelinear, bristles radiate. 



A. parviflora. (1). 



1. Leaflets 5-11, ovate to obovate or elliptic-oblong. 2. 



2. Fruit with few erect, ascending or comivant bristles. 3. 



2. Fruit with many radiating bristles. A. gryposepala. (2). 



3. Under surface of leaves usually glabrous or with few scattered hairs, 



minutely glandular. A. rostellata. (3). 



3. Under surface of leaves closely and softly pubescent. 4. 



4. Leaves glandular-dotted beneath; leaflets 5-11; fruit wnth slender 



ascending bristles nearly in a single row; roots tuberous. A. mollis. (4). 

 4. Leaves not glandular-dotted beneath; leaflets 7-9; fruit with short 

 comivant or inflexed bristles; roots not tuberous. A. striata. (5). 



1. Agrimonia parviflora Sol. Small-flowered Agrimony. Erect 

 herb, 1-4 ft. high; stems brownish, hirsute; flowers small, in 

 long, slender racemes; leaflets 11-17, lanceolate to narrowly 

 lance-linear, actiminate, sharply serrate; flowers |-j in. broad; 

 fruit top-shaped, ridges, with reflexcd radiate bristles. Auglaize, 

 Belmont, Cuyahoga, Putnam, Montgomery, Huron, Franklin, 

 vScioto, Trumbull, Carroll, Ottawa, Logan, Wood, Union, 

 Wyandot. 



2. Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr. Hair}' Agrimon>'. Plants 

 l-(5 ft. tall with few Ijrislly hairs, minutely glandular; leaves 

 usually 7-foliate, leaflets large, 1^-5 in. long, elliptic or oblong, 

 coarsely serrate; flowers less than % i"- broad, yellow; fruit 

 top-shaped, deeply ridged. Stark, Logan, Belmont, Madison, 

 Summit, Fayette, Erie, Ashtabula, Wayne, Harrison, Highland, 

 Defiance. 



3. Agrimonia rostellata Wallr. Woodland Agrimony. Stems 

 about 1 5 ft. tall, mintitcly glandular; leaflets mostly 5, ovate- 

 oblong, crcnate or dentate; flowers |-f in. broad; bristles erect 



