458 ROSACEiE. Rosa. 



styles cohering in a column as long as the stamens ; fruit globose, smooth 

 {red).— Michx. ! fl. 1. p. 295, R. rubifolia, R. Br. in hort. Kew. {ed. 2.) 3. 

 p. 260 ,• Seringe, in DC. I. c. 



a. glabra : leaves 3-foliolate, glabrous beneath. 



p. iomentosa : leaves 3- (sometimes 5-) foliolate, tomentose beneath. — R. 

 rubifolia, iZ. Br. I. c. 



Southern and Western States, from Michigan ! and Ohio ! to Arkansas ! 

 Louisiana ! and Georgia ! June-July. — This beautiful species is capable o f 

 being trained to a great extent : it bears a profusion of large but nearly in- 

 odorous reddish flowers. The petioles are usually a little pricklj'. The 

 name of R. rubifolia must yield to the prior one of Michaux, and it is be- 

 sides too similar in sound with R. rubrifolia. 



* * Styles not coherent. 



2. R. Carolina (Linn.) : stem smooth, armed with stout recurved mostly 

 stipular prickles, not bristly ; leaflets 5-9, elliptical, often acuminate, finely 

 serrate, petiolulatc, not shining above, the lower surface as well as the pe- 

 tiole puberulent and pale ; stipules long and narrow, the margins involute ; 

 flowers corymbose ; calyx and peduncles glandular-hispid ; the sepals most- 

 ly entire, with foliaceous terminations ; fruit depressed-globose (dark red and 

 shining when mature), mostly a little glandular-hispid. — Linn. ! sp>ec. {ed. 2.) 

 1. p. 703 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 341 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 565 ; Lindl. Ros. p. 23, 

 t. 4 ; Torr. ! fl. 1. p. 486 ; Seringe, in DC. I. c. ; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. 

 p. 199 ,- Darlingt. fl. Cest. jy. 311. R. corjanbosa, Ehrh. hcitr. 4. p. 21 ; 

 Muhl. cat. R. Virginiana, Duroi. R. Pennsylvanica, Michx. fl. l.p. 296 

 (partly). R. Caroliniana, Bigel. 



In low swampy grounds and thickets, Canada ! and Northern States ! to 

 Ohio ! and in the Southern States towards the mountains. July. — Stem 

 4-6 feet high, with very smooth purplish branches. Leaflets acute at the 

 base, sometimes obtuse and a little obovate. Petioles a little bristly and 

 glandular. Petals large, reddish, mostly obcordate. — Elliott is quite right in 

 the suggestion that R. lucida, or at least some other than the present species, 

 was the original R. Carolina. The species was entirely founded on " Rosa 

 Carolina fragrans" &c. Dill. Elth. t. 245, /. 316, in the first edition of the 

 species Plantamm, which certainly was not intended for the present plant. 

 In the second edition, Linnsus has described from the specimen in his own 

 herbarium (from the Upsal garden), which belongs to the present species, and 

 has adduced the synonym of Dillenius with a mark of doubt. Hence it 

 would be improper to restore the name to the original plant, which cannot be 

 identified from the figure. — Swamp Rose. 



3. R. lucida (Ehrh.) : stems armed with numerous scattered unequal 

 setaceous at length mostly deciduous prickles ; those of the flowering branches 

 stipular, slender, straight or slightly recurved, or sometimes wanting r leaf- 

 lets 5-9, elliptical, sharply serrate, glabrous and shining above, the lower 

 pair commonly approximate to the stipules ; the petioles somewhat glandu- 

 lar or hispid; stipules dilated; flowers 1-3; the peduncles and entire or 

 laciniate-appendiculate elongated calyx-segments glandular-hispid ; the tube 

 sometimes glabrous ; petals obcordate or emarginate, about the length of the 

 calyx-segments ; fruit (small, red) depressed-globose, mostly glabrous when 

 mature. — R. lucida & parviflora, Ehrh. ; Willd. ! ^- authors. 



a. leaflets crowded, elHptical-oblong or lanceolate-ovate, scarcely paler 

 and glabrous or slightly pubescent on the veins beneath; petioles mostly 

 glabrous. — R. parviflora, Ehrh. beitr. i. p. 11 ; IVilld. ! spec. 2. p. 1068 ; 

 Jacq. fragm. t. 107, /. 3 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 563 ; Lindl. ! Rus.p. 17 ; Hook. 



