ROSA CAROLINA, 23 
15. ROSA earolina. Tab. 4. 
R. stipulis convolutis, foliolis lanceolatis, sepalis pa- 
tentibus. 
carolina Linn! sp. 703. Willd. sp. 2.1069. Lawr. 
Ros. t.24? Ait! kew, ed. alt. 3.260. Pers. syn. 
2.48. Pursh! am. septr.n. 8. Smith? in Rees in 
loc. Redout. ros. 1. 81. t. 28. 
virginiana Du Roi harbk. 2. 353. Réssig. ros. 
oi; iS 
"a 
corymbosa Ehr! beit. 4.21. Muhl. cat. 50. 
pennsylvanica Michaux boreali-am. 1, 296. 
R. caroliniana Big! bost. 121. 
R. hudsoniana Redout. ros. 1. 95. ¢. 35. 
&. florida, foliis impubibus tenerioribus. 
R. florida Donn! cant. ed. 8. 169. 
R. enneaphylla Rafin. Schm. précis des découvertes ? 
quoted in Desv. journ. 4. 26 
Hab. in palustribus Novanglia Virginiam usque (Pursh.) 
(v. s. sp. & v. cult.) 
R. 
R. palustris Marsh. arb. 135. Donn! cant. ed. 8. p. 
169. 
R. 
R. 
From 2 to 8 feet high. Branches erect, green or 
red brown, with twin or solitary straight prickles under 
the stipulae; the arms of the rootshoots are more 
dense and soon become setz. Leaves opaque; stipule 
unusually long, narrow, inflected and folded together 
except at the end, which is spreading, naked unless at 
the edge which is toothed and sometimes fringed. 
Petioles downy, and armed with little prickles ; leaflets 
7, lanceolate, finely and simply serrate, above naked, 
and dark green, becoming discoloured towards the au- 
tumn, beneath downy and somewhat glaucous. Cymes 
one or many flowered, appearing after the summer 
