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1. A. Eupatoria Linn. : hairy; leaves interruptedly pinnate; leafets ob- 

 long-ovate, crenate-dentate, the terminal one petioled ; spike virgate, many- 

 flowered, terminal, long and slender ; tube of the calyx bell-shaped, with 

 spreading bristles near the middle ; petals twice as long as the calyx ; fruit 

 distant, turbinate, hispid, smooth at base. 



Woods and hedges. Can. to Geor. W. to Miss. July. %.~Stem 2 feet 

 high. Flowers yellow, in a long terminal spike or raceme. 



Common Agrimony. 



2, ^1. parviflora Ait : hirsute with brownish hairs ; leaves interruptedly 

 pinnate ; leafets numerous, Hnear-lanceolate, incisely serrate; spike virgate ; 

 flowers on very short pedicels ; petals scarcely longer than the calyx ; fruit 

 roundish, divaricately hispid, A Eupatoria var. parviflora Hook. 



Woods. N. J. to Geor. W. to Ken. July, Aug. %.—Stem 4—5 feet high. 

 Flowers numerous, in virgate racemes. Petals small, pale yellow. 



Small-Jiowered Agrimony. 



12. ROSA. Limi.— Rose. 

 (From the Celtic rhos ; signifying red.) 



Calyx urceolate, fleshy, contracted at the orifice, terminating 

 in 5 segments. Petals '5. Stamens many. Carpels many, 

 long, hispid, included in and fixed to the fleshy tube of the 

 calyx. 



* Styles cohering in a column. 



1. R. setigera Mich. : stem ascending ; branches glabrous ; prickles few, 

 falcate ; leaves ternate, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, pubescent beneath ; stip- 

 ules narrow, entire ; peduncles and calyx hispid ; ilowers corymbose ; lobes 

 of the calyx ovate, short, simple ; styles cohering in a tomentose club- 

 shaped column, as long as the stamens ; fruit pisiform. R. rubifolia R. 

 Broion. 



Shores of the Western lakes. W. to Miss. July. T2..—FZo«;ers very numer- 

 ous, changing from white to different shades of red, sometimes in a large co- 

 rymb. When cultivated, it may be trained to a great extent. 



Michigan Rose. 



** Styles free. 



2. R. lucida Ehrh. : prickles straight or slightly recurved ; leafets 5 — 9, 

 lanceolate-elliptic, coriaceous, sharply serrate, shining above ; stipules di- 

 lated, large, smooth, serrulate ; peduncles somewhat hispid ; segments of 

 the calyx entire, appendaged, spreading but not deflexed ; flowers mostly 

 in pairs ; fruit globose-depressed, hispid or smooth- R. parviflor<» Ehrh. 

 R. Caroliniana Mich. R. nitida and R. parviflora Beck Bot. 1st Ed. 



Borders of swarnps. Can. to Geor. W. to Ark. June, July. T7 .—Stem 1— -3 

 or 4 feet high. Flowers rather large, pale red. Petals obcordate or emargi- 

 nate. Frutt small, red, mostly smooth when mature. A very variable species. 



Dwarf Wild Rose. 



3. R. Carolina Linn. : prickles recurved, often wanting ; leaf(;ts 5—9, 

 coriaceous, lanceolate or obovate, serrulate, approximate, glaucous beneath ; 

 stipules long, with an involute margin ; flowers mostly in corymbs, rarely 

 eolitary ; lobes of the calyx very long, appendaged, spreading ; fruit de- 



