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hooked thorns, and about seven small, thick, usually 

 shining leaflets, dark green above and coarsely 

 toothed. The flowers are pale pink and grow singly 

 as well as in clusters ; the sepals are bristly, more or 

 less long and slender, and are frequently notched. 

 The stipules (flaring sides of the leaf- 

 stem where it joins the main stem) 

 of this species are dilated or broad ; 

 those of Rosa Caroli- 

 na are long and nar- 

 row. Rosa lucida is 

 distributed from 

 Newfoundland south- 

 westward to eastern 

 Pennsylvania ; it 

 blooms [earlier than 

 Rosa Carolina] in 

 June or July. 



Rosa humilis is a 

 species somewhat sim- 

 ilar to the foregoing, 

 but it extends as far 

 West and Southwest Rosa lucida. 



as Minnesota and Lou- 

 isiana. It is common, however, in drier soil or on 

 rocky slopes. It grows from one to three feet high, 

 and has slender, less leafy stems with nearly straight 



