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ascending and branching, woolly, leaflets oblong wedge-shaped, with 
a few large, deeply cut teeth, smooth and green above, silvery 
beneath, with a dense coat of white wool ; flowers small and some- 
what clustered. Perennial. 
III. ROSA, ROSE. 
Calyx-tube urn-shaped, with a rather narrow mouth. Petals 
(in single roses) 5. Stamens many, inserted around the 
inside of the mouth of the calyx-tube. Ovaries many, hairy, 
ripening into bony akenes, enclosed in the rather fleshy and 
sometimes eatable calyx-tube. 
a. (R. BLANDA), Earty Wiip Rose. Stems 1-3 ft. high, 
usually without prickles; stipules broad; flowers generally large, 
corymbed or solitary ; sepals after flowering closing over the mouth 
of the calyx-tube and persistent. 
b. (R. CaAroxtina), Swamp Rose. Stems 4—8 ft. high, with stout 
and generally recurved prickles ; stipules long and narrow ; leaflets 
commonly downy beneath, finely serrate ; flowers several in a corymb, 
bright rose-color ; sepals spreading and falling off after flowering. 
ce. (R. LtucipA), Dwarr WiLp Rose. Stems varying in height 
from less than a foot to 6 ft., with stout, somewhat hooked prickles ; 
stipules rather broad; leaflets small, thickish and glossy above, 
coarsely toothed toward the tip; flowers corymbed, or solitary pale 
rose-color ; sepals spreading and falling off after flowering. 
LEGUMINOSA, PULSE FAMILY. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, usually com- 
pound (either pinnately or palmately), with stipules, the leaf- 
lets entire. Calyx of 5 sepals, which are more or less united, 
often somewhat irregular. Corolla, of 5 petals, often papili- 
onaceous (Fig. 119), or somewhat regular. Stamens diadel- 
phous (Fig. 150), monadelphous, or distinct. Ovary simple, 
superior. Fruit usually a 1-celled pod (Fig. 162). Seeds one 
or several, without endosperm. 
I. TRIFOLIUM, CLOVER. 
Herbs, mostly with palmately compound leaves ; flowers in 
heads, short spikes, or umbels which resemble heads ; calyx 
with 5 bristle-like teeth ; petals with claws, which are more 
