486 ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. rosa, 



Enum. p. 544. Smith in Rees"^ Cyclop. P ur sh Fl. L 

 p. 344. Elliott SLl.Tp. 364, M uhl. Cat. ip. 51. 



A low shrub. Flowers large, red. F/i. 



Hab. Ondry sunny Iiills. New-England to Carolina. Pwrs //, 



In New- York and Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg'. June. 

 This species does not appear to be very distinct. It is nearly 



allied to the following. 



5. R, Carolina L. : fruit globose, and, with the peduncles, 

 somewhat hispid ; petioles hairy, somewhat prickly ; stents 

 smooth ; prickles uncinate ; leaflets (5 — 7) oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, sharply serrate, glaucous beneath ; flowers in corymbSo 

 Willd. Spec. II. p. 1069. Miss Lawr. Ros. t. 3, 24, 

 36, 54, eG, and 68. Wang. Amer..^. 112. t. 31. f. 71. 

 Pursh Fl.I.Tp. 345. Elliott Sk. J. p. 565. R. co^ 

 rymbosa Ehrh. Beilr. IV. p. 21. R. virginiana Du Roi 

 Harkb. III. p. 353. R. pennsyhanica M i c h. FL \1 p. 296. 



A shrub 3 — 8 feet high, with numerous prickly branches. 

 Prickles strong, hooked. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, often acu- 

 minate, smooth or pubescent beneath. Corymbs 4-— 7-flo\ver- 

 ed, terminating the branches. Calyx with linear-lanceolate 

 smooth segments, as long as the petals, entire. Petals large, 

 red, broad, obovate, eraarginate. Fruit large, nearly globoscj 

 hispid, eatable. 



IIab. In swamps and wet thickets ; common. June — July. 

 A very variable species in the shape and pubescence of the 

 leaves. Sometimes they are much acuminate, and quite pu- 

 bescent beneath. 



6. R. rubigiyiosa L. : fruit ovate ; peduncles and petioles 

 glandular-hispid ; stem smooth ; branches and prickles re- 



• curved; leaflets oblong, opake, pubescent above, ferrugi- 

 nous and glandular beneath. Willd, Spec. U. ^. ^073, 

 Smith Fl. Brit. II. p. 540. Eng, Bot. t. 991. R. siiaveo--, 

 iens P^^rsh Ft. 1. p. 346. Smith in Rees"* Cyclop, sub 

 Rosa, Elliott Sk.\. p. 5GQ. 



A tall slender shrub, sometimes climbing the highest trees; 

 branches bright green. Prickles long, recurved, strong. Leaves 

 dull, sweet-scented ; leaflets 5 — 7, roundish or elliptical, co- 

 vered beneath with a glandular ferruginous pubescence ; pe- 

 tioles with a few short prickles. Flowet^s solitary, by pairs, or 

 sometimes three together. Segments of the caly:ic spreading j 

 2 or 3 of the exterior ones laciniate. Petals pale red, emar- 

 ginatc. Fruit orange-red, ovate or roundish, a little hispid. 



Hab. In hedges, on hill sides, &c. ; common. Sweet-briar. 



The North-American Sweet-briar is, by P tir s h and 

 Smith, considered as a distinct species; but I believe, with 

 Mr. JVuttall, that it is merely a naturalized plant in this 

 country. It does not diff"er so much from R. rubiginoaa ^5 

 many of the varieties of that plant do from each other. 



