58 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



pointed green leaflets which enfold the pink buds) 

 are generally deciduous.* The delicate pink flowers 

 are borne in small clusters ; they greatly vary in 

 strength of tint. Rosa 

 Carolina is distribu- 

 ted from Maine to 

 Florida, and 

 westward to 

 Minnesota 

 and Miss- 

 issippi. 



Kosa Carolina. 



The dwarf wild rose (Rosa lucida\ sometimes 

 called shining rose, grows from one to five feet high, 

 has stout stems armed with numerous more or less 



* Gray describes the sepals of this rose as spreading and de- 

 ciduous in his Manual, but in his Field, Forest, and Garden 

 Botany, edited by Prof. L. H. Bailey, no notice is taken of the 

 fact. I have also been reminded by Mrs. M. L. Owen, one of the 

 leading botanists of New England, of the deciduous character of 

 the sepals. Very probably, however, this is a general rule, not 

 without an occasional exception, as in two or three cases I have 

 found the withered leaflets still attached to the seed receptacle, 

 but while the latter was yet ruddy-colored. 



