62 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 



generally without thorns or prickles, though sometimes 

 having them. It has from five to seven lanceolate leaflets, 

 dilated stipules, and is non-resinous. The flowers are 

 large, either alone or in clusters. The sepals are entire 

 and hispid. Further north, on the borders of swamps, 

 comes Rosa nitida. To these we can add the sweet-brier 

 or eglantine, now quite naturalized and of wide distribu- 

 tion. All these species exhibit various shades of pink or 

 rose color in their flowers. 



The g&nusRosa gives its name to a large and very im- 

 portant family of plants. In it we find our most useful 

 fruit trees : cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, choke- 

 berries, service berries, apples, pears and quinces. Among 

 the smaller fruits we find the strawberry of which the old 

 w^ritersays: "Doubtless God might have made a better 

 berry, but doubtless He never did." 

 Brown University, Providence, R. I. 



IN PENNSYLVANIA WOODLANDS. 



BY BESSIE L. PUTNAM. 

 'T' O the flower lover June may not be the ideal month if 

 -*- showy flowers is the criterion. For these May is un- 

 surpassed. Yet there are on every side subjects of interest 

 though they do not present themselves so plainly'. Besides 

 there is the wealth of ferns not found in full beauty earlier, 

 yet so important in the general appearance of the land- 

 scape. Osmundas are just losing their fertile fronds and 

 Botrychiums just gaining them. Never are maiden-hairs 

 so attractive as w^hen just reaching full size, their rich 

 green and shining ebony stipes showing to the best advan- 

 tage. 



Trillums, Jack-in-the-pulpit and other flowers that 

 were conspicuous a fortnight ago are now past their prime 

 and almost concealed by the luxuriant growth of ferns 

 which were then just uncoiling. Violets are still found in 

 profusion. Some intense blue, rosy purple, or nearly 

 white. The large flowered Canada violet, which is so well 

 adapted to cultivation, still lingers. Why do not the 



