126 ROSACEX. (ROSE FAMILY.) 
dular; corymb few-flowered ; petals obcordate ; fruit globose, smooth. — Borders 
of swamps, Florida to South Carolina, and westward. June. — Stem 10°-15° 
long. Flowers 2’-—3! wide, red. 
* * Styles distinct, included : flowers red or white. 
2. R. Carolina, L. Stem erect, smooth, armed with stout recurved stipu- 
lar prickles ; leaflets 5-9, oblong or elliptical, acute, finely serrate, dull and . 
smoothish above, the lower surface paler, or, like the prickly petioles and cau- 
ate calyx-lobes, tomentose ; flowers single or corymbose ; calyx-tube and 
peduncles glandular-hispid.— Swamps, Florida to North Carolina, and west- 
ward. June.— Stem 4°-6° high, commonly purplish. Fruit depressed-globose, 
glandular. 
3. R. lucida, Ehrhart. Stem low, erect, armed with bristles and stout 
stipular prickles ; leaflets mostly 5, elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, sharply ser- 
rate, smooth and shining above, paler and often somewhat pubescent beneath ; 
flowers solitary, or 2-3 together; peduncles and calyx glandular, the latter 
with foliaceous, often incised lobes. (R. parviflora, Ell.) — Florida to Mississippi, - 
and northward, mostly in dry soil, common. May and June.— Stem 1°-3° 
high. A variable species. Stem sometimes smooth. 
4. R. rubiginosa, L. (EerawTINE.) Stem erect or curving, armed with 
very stout prickles ; leaflets 5-7, oval or obovate, serrate, glandular beneath; 
flowers mostly solitary, on hispid peduncles; fruit obovate. (R: suaveolens, . 
Pursh.) — Waste places in the upper districts: introduced. Branches yellowish- _ 
green. Leaves fragrant. | 
5. R. levigata, Michx. (CmremokrEE Ross.) Stem long, trailing, 
smooth, the branches armed with very stout and curved prickles; leaves evet- —— 
green, mostly trifoliolate; leaflets smooth and shining, lanceolate, the midrib his- — 
pid; stipules deciduous ; flowers large, solitary, white; calyx very bristly.— 
Common in cultivation. 
15. CRATZEGUS, L. Hawrnonx. 
Calyx urn-shaped; the limb 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, orbicular, concave. 
Stamens few or many. Styles 1—5, distinct. Fruit fleshy, containing r-e 
bony nutlets. — Thorny shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, serrate or variously 
lobed. Flowers white, axillary and solitary, or in corymbs terminating short — 
lateral branches. Stipules on the young branches linear, or lunate and sēr- 
rate. 
j * Corymbs compound, many-flowered. 
+ Fruit small, not larger than a pea. ie 
1. C. spathulata, Michx. Young branches tomentose, otherwise nearly 
smooth and glandless throughout; leaves small, spatulate, crenate at the sum 
mit; those on the young shoots larger and incisely lobed ; calyx-lobes very 
short; styles 5; fruit very small, red. — River-banks, Florida to North Carolina, 
.. and west to Mississippi, April. —A small tree. Coryube sometimes sig 
pubescent. pitur bese teeta: SE 
