loO POPULAR ILOllA. 



* * Leaflets 3 or 5, white-clown}^ beneath: flowers smfill: petals white, erect. 



3. Gardkn I^ASPr.EiiUY. Stems with some slender hooked prickles as well as bristles ; petals shorter 



than the calyx; fruit red, Szc, the grains minutely downy. Cult. li. Ickeus. 



4. Wild Red R. Stems very bristly; petals as long as the calyx; fruit pale red, very tender. Very 



common N. R- sirigbsui. 



5. Black R. (or TimiBLEBEKRY). Plant glaucoi;s all over; the long recurved stems and stalks 



beset with hooked prickles ; fruit dark purple. Borders of ^voods and fields, R. occ'uknialis. 



§2. BLACKBERRY. Fruit of large grains, remaining on the juicy receptacle, black or dark purple 

 when ripe: petals white, spreading; leaflets 3 or 5. 



6. High Blacicberky or Bramble. Stems mostly erect, angular, bearing stout curved prickles; 



young shoots hairy and glandular; leaflets ovate or oblong, pointed, downy underneath and prickly 

 on the midrib; flowers large, in racemes; fruit large, sweet. R. viUusus. 



7. Low B. (or Dewberry). Stems long, trailing; leaves smaller and nearly smooth; flowers fewer, 



and the large sweet fruit ripe earlier than in the last. Sterile or rocky ground. R. Canadensis. 



8. Sand B. Stems low, but erect, with stont hooked prickles; leaflets wedge-obovate, whitish-woolly 



beneath ; fruit sweet. Sandy soil. New Jersey & S. R. cuncifblius. 



9. Running SwA?iir-B. Stems slender, creeping, hooked-prickly; leaves nearly evergreen, shining, 



obovate; flowers small; fruit of few grains, reddish until ripe^ sour. Wet woods, N. R. hispidus. 



Rose. Rosa, 



Calyx with an urn-shaped hollow tube (Fig. 360), bearing 5 leafy lobes at the top, 5 petals and 

 many stamens, and within enclosing many pistils attached to its walls. The ovai'ics ripen into bony 

 and hairy akcnes, and the calyx makes a fleshy or pulpy, red and berry-like fruit (hip). — Shrubs, Avith 

 pinnate leaves of 3 to 9 leaflets. (Stigmas just rising to the mouth of the calyx, except in No. 1.) 



* Wild Roses. But No. 1 is cultivated, especially in double-flowered varieties, and the Sweet-Brier, 

 which came from Europe, is also kept in gardens, for its sweet-scented leaves. Flowers in all 

 bright rose-color. 



1. Prairie Rose, Stems climbing high, prickly; leaflets 3 or 5, large; petals deep rose-color turning 



pale; styles cohering together, and projecting out of the tube of the calyx; flowers in corymbs, 

 scentless, in summer. Edges of prairies and thickets; W, and cult. R. setifjera. 



2. Sweet-Brier R. (or Eglantine). Stems climbing, and with stout hooked prickles; leaflets 5 or 



7, roundish, downy and bearing russet fragrant glands beneath; hip pear-shaped. Road-sides, 

 gardens, «S:c. R- ruhif/inosa. 



3. SwA5iP R. Stems erect, 4° to 7° high, with hooked prickles; leaflets dull, 5 to 9; flowers in 



corymbs; hips rather bristly, broader than long. R- Carolina. 



4. Low Wild R. Stems 1" to 3° high, with mostly straight prickles; leaves smooth and commonly 



shining; flowers single or 2 to 3 together; hips as in the last. Common. R- Uuida. 



5. Bland R. Low, pale or glaucous, Avith few or no prickles; calyx and globular hips very smooth. 



Rocks: flowering early in summer, N, R- hlanda. 



* * Cultivated species are very numerous and much mixed. The commonest are: — 



Cinnamon Rose, R. cinnamomea. Damask R., R. Damascena. 



Scotch or Burnet R., R. finnosissima. Cabbage or Hundred-leaved R,, R. ceniifblia^ 



