460 ROSACEiE. Rosa. 



short glabrous peduncles; segments of the calyx entire, shorter than the 

 corolla, oltcn glandular, the tube glabrous and glaucous ; fruit globose, 

 crowned with tlie persistent at length connivent calyx-segments. — Ait. Kew. 

 (ed. 1.) 2. 2)- 202 ; Jacq. fragm. l 105 ; Willd. I. c. ; Lindl. Ros. p. 25 ; 

 Hook. ! Jl. Bar.- Am. 1. j). 199. R. Pennsylvanica, Michx. I. c. (partly, ex 

 spec!) R. gemella, Willd. enum. 1. 2>- 344. (partly, ex spec.!); Smith! 

 in Rees, cyd. R. fraxinifolia, Seringe, in DC. I. c. R. Lindleyi, Spreng. 

 syst. ? Seringe, I. c. ? 



p. leaflets 7-9, smaller. — R. Woodsii, var. Boner, in Hook. ! L. c. 



Newfoundland ! Hudson's Bay, Saskatchawan ! (as far north as Bear 

 Lake, Richardson!) to the northern portions of t?ie New England States I 

 New York! and Pennsylvania (on rocks). Blay-June. — Stems 1-3 feet 

 high. Flowers rather large, rose-color : petals obcordate. — This can- 

 not readily be confounded with any other American species (at least on 

 this side of the Rocky Mountains) except, perhaps, with R. cinnamomea. 

 From that species it is distinguished by the smaller bracts, shorter sepals 

 as compared with the petals, and in having no stipular prickles ; the more 

 persistent ones moreover being always straight. It is often almost entirely 

 unarmed. It is the earliest-flowering indigenous species in the Northern 

 States. 



7. R. fraxinifolia (Bork.) : stems armed with scattered bristly prickles, or 

 at length unarmed ; the branches strict, naked, somewliat glaucous ; leaflets 

 5-7, oval, not shining, sharply and rather coarsely serrate, slightly hairy 

 beneath, or glabrous ; stipules dilated, sometimes serrulate and glandular; 

 flowers corymbose, on short glabrous jieduncles ; segments of the calyx a 

 little glandular, appendiculate, entire ; the tube glabrous and a little glau- 

 cous ; fruit (large, red) ovoid, crowned with the persistent calyx-segments. — 

 " Bork. holz. 301" ; Seringe, I. c. (excl. a. blanda) ; Bot. reg. t. 458 ; Hook. ! 

 fl.. Bor.-Am. l.p. 199. R. megacarpa, ISuit. mss. 



Oregon, near the sea, Menzies ! Dr. Scouler ! Nuttall. — This is doubtless 

 distinct irom R. blanda, and is, we suspect, confined to the Pacific coast. 

 The petioles in the younger shoots are sometimes a little prickly, and the 

 teeth of the leaflets serrulate. — To this species apjtarently belongs the Rosa 

 blanda? Hook. &^' Am. hot. Beechey, suj^j^l. p. 338, from California; but 

 the R. Californica indicated by Chamisso & Schlechtendal is probably 

 different. 



8. R. fVoodsii (Lindl.) : armed with numerous straight and weak prick- 

 les ; leaflets 7-9, oblong, obtuse, approximate, glabrous, shining ; tlie petioles 

 often leafless at the base ; stipules connivent, distant from the lower pair of 

 leaflets, glandulose-fimbriate on the margin ; sepals short, naked, ovate ? 

 Seringe, l. c. — Lindl. Ros. p. 21, Sj' bot. reg. t. 976. 



On the Missouri River. Sepals connivent. Allied to R. cinnamomea. 

 Lindl. — We have no authentic specimens of this species. The so-called 

 variety of Mr. Borrer, with opaque leaves quite downy beneath, we refer to 

 R. blanda. 



' 9. R. foliolosa (Nutt. ! mss.) : branches slender, glabrous, armed with 

 very weak scattered deciduous bristly prickles, and sometimes with persis- 

 tent short and_ nearly straight stipular prickles; leaflets 7-11, linear-oblong, 

 glabrous, shining above, sharply serrate, crowded, the lower pair close to tlie 

 narrow glandular-ciliate stipules ; the petiole and midrib often setose and 

 pubescent ; flowers mostly solitary and almost sessile ; calyx glandular- 

 hispid ; the segments reflexed, often with lateral appendages ; "fruit sub- 

 globose, somewhat hispid. 



Prairies of Arkansas, Nuttall ! Dr. Pitcher ! Dr. Leavenworth ! Texas, 

 Vrnmmond ! East Florida ? — A remarkable species, with the leaves much 



