ROSA LUCIDA. 17 
11. ROSA lucida. 
R. compacta, aculeis ramulorum stipularibus, foliolis 
oblongis imbricatis planis lucidis, fruetu depresso- 
globoso. 
carolina fragrans foliis mediotents serratis Dill. 
elth, 325. t. 245. f. 316. 
rubra lucida Ross. ros. t. 7. & t. 25. f. 1. 
lucida Ehr. beitr. 4. 22. Willd. sp. 2. 1068 
Monch. meth. 687. Jacq. fragm. 71. t.107. f- 3. 
Pers. syn. 1.48, Pursh! am. septr.n. 4. Smith! 
in Rees in loc. Redouté ros. 1. 45. ¢.11. 
Hab. in America septentrionali a Noveboraco in Caro- 
jinam usque, (Pursh) ; juxta Boston in aquosis et 
ad margines paludum, Bigelow o v. C.; ef 8. ap. 
herb. Smith). 
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A compact bush, from four to six feet high; some- 
times much smaller. Branches erect, reddish brown, 
shining, with nearly solitary slender prickles under the 
stipulz, and a few setz scattered here and there; the 
rootshoots sometimes very setigerous on their lower 
half, but like the branches on their upper. Leaves 
very close, spreading irregularly; stipule without pu- 
bescence, flat, shining, rigid, waved, their edge mi- 
nutely toothed, the teeth sometimes tipped with a 
gland ; petioles either naked or a little downy beneath, 
armed with a few short, stout prickles; leaflets nine, 
ovate-lanceolate, naked on both sides, very near each 
other, waved, simply and coarsely serrated, very un- 
equal, the lowest pair frequently very small. Flowers 
overtopped by the leaves and the new branchlets, very 
red, several together; bracteaw concave, revolute at the 
edge, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, naked on both sides, 
finely toothed, the serratures tipped with a gland; 
ower-stalks nearly naked, not much longer than the 
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