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shaped leaflets, crimson flowers with spreading sepals, and round scarlet hispid fruit. Syn. : 

 R. virginiana, Du Boi ; R. palustris, Marsh ; R. corymhosa, Ehrh.; R. pennsylvanica, Michx., 

 R. Hudsoniana, Bed. — Var. florida has thinner leaves without pubescence (R. florida, Down ; 

 R. enneaphylla, Bafin).— Fl. June and July— Cult. 1726— North America. 



R. blanda, Ait. (bland Rose). A shrub of 2 to 6 feet high, the branches armed with scattered 

 deciduous straight prickles and setee, the leaves opaque with downy petioles, and 5-7 lance- 

 shaped or oblong leaflets ; the flowers large, pale red, and solitary. — Fl. May to Aug. — Cult. 1773 

 — North America. 



R. gemella, Willd. (twin-prickled Rose). A low shrub, armed with short hooked prickles 

 growing in pairs beneath the axils of the leaves ; leaflets oblong acute ; flowers large red ; fruit 

 smooth. — Fl. July and August — Cult. 1800 — North America. 



R. Lyonii, Pursh (Lyon's Rose). A shrub of 3 to 4 feet high with glabrous stems, armed 

 with straight scattered prickles ; 3-5 small ovate-oblong leaflets, smooth above, tomentose 

 beneath, the uppermost leaves simple ; flowers usually ternate, pale red. — Fl. June to August — 

 Cult. 1812— North America. 



R. fraxinifolia, Bork. (ash-leaved Rose). A tall erect shrub of 4 to 6 feet high, with dark 

 purple glaucescent branches without prickles, opaque leaves without pubescence of 5-7 lanceo- 

 late leaflets, and small red flowers succeeded by small round pale red fruit. Syn. : R. virginiana, 

 Mill. ; R. corymbosa, Bosc. — Fl. May and June — Cult. 1773 — North-West America. 



R. cinnamomea, Besl. (cinnamon Rose). An erect grey shrub, of 5 to 6 feet high, the 

 branches armed with a pair of straightish prickles under the stipules, the leaves dense, of 5, 

 rarely 7 lanceolate leaflets, grey and smooth above, downy beneath ; flowers small pale or bright 

 red ; fruit round naked crimson. Syn. : R. fcecundissima, Mcench. ; R. majalis, Herm. — Fl. 

 May and June — England and Middle and S. of Europe- 



R. Dicksoniana, IAndl. (Dickson's Rose). A shrub of 5 to 6 feet high, with flexuous setige- 

 rous branches, armed with a few scattered prickles, the leaflets oval, the flowers white, and the 

 fruit ovate, urceolate, naked. — Fl. June and July — Said to be a native of Ireland. 



R. taurica, Bieb. (Taurian Rose). A greyish shrub, of 5 or 6 feet high, with straight branches, 

 armed below with scattered prickles ; leaves, villous beneath with oblong leaflets ; flowers red. 

 — Fl. June and July — Cult. 1817 — Tauria. 



R. dahurica, Pall. (Dahurian Rose). An erect much-branched shrub of 4 to 6 feet high, 

 with slender branches, twin stipular prickles, leaves of 7 lanceolate leaflets, red flowers, and 

 ovate red fruit. — Fl. May and June — Cult. 1824 — Dahuria and Mongol Tartary. 



R. majalis, Betz. (dwarf cinnamon Rose). A small grey shrub of 3 or 4 feet high, with 

 straight branches, scattered nearly equal prickles, and leaves of (usually) 7 oblong glaucous leaf- 

 lets: flowers solitary, pale red ; fruit orange, red, spherical, naked. Syn. : R. mutica, Fl. Ban. ; 



R. spinosissima Gorter ; R. collincola, Ehrh. — Fl. May and June — Cult. ? — Sweden and 



Denmark. 



Sect. PiMriNELLiFOLivE. Plants hearing crowded nearly equal prickles, or unarmed ; bractless 

 rarely bracteate ; leaflets ovate or oblong ; sepals connivent permanent ; disk almost wanting. 

 The number of leaflets varies from 7 to 15. Deciduous bushes. 



R. alpina, Linn. (Alpine Rose). An unarmed shrub of 5 to 8 feet high, with erect branches, 

 leaves of 5-9 ovate leaflets, solitary erect blush flowers, and orange-red, pendulous elongated 

 fruit. Syn. : R. rupestris, Crantz ; R. monspeliaca, Gouan ; R. inermis, Mill. ; R. lagenaria, 

 Vill., and various others. The varieties are numerous: pyrenaica (R. pyrenaica, Gouan; R. 

 turbinata, Vill.; R. hispida, Krok) ; pbnpinellifolia (R. glandulosa, Bell.; R. pygmsea, Bieb.) ; 

 and turbinata (R. inermis, Delaun. ; R. mixta, Tratt.) are recorded as introduced. — Fl. June 

 to Aug.— Cult. 1683 — Alps of Europe. 



R. rubella, Smith, (reddish Rose). A small erect shrub, of 2 to 3 feet high, the brandies 

 covered with nearly equal weak seta? and prickles, leaves of 7-11 oval leaflets, flowers deep red. 



