ROSA 141 



slightly glandular serrate, the pair about 4-7 mm. wide, veiny, slightly 

 woolly pubescent beneath; flowering shoots borne on old wood, flowers 

 solitary or in clusters of 2-8, lower bracts leafy, upper much reduced, 

 lanceolate, pedicels and outside of receptacle smooth, sepals slightly broad- 

 ened at the tip, simple, or the outer ones slightly lobed, about 1.5 cm. 

 long, slightly pubescent and often a little glandular on the outside, finely 

 cobwebby within, petals pink, flowers about 3 cm. across; calyx persistent 

 in fruit erect or somewhat spreading, fruit globose or nearly so, about 

 8 mm. in diameter, wall thin; achenes dark-colored, hairy along one angle, 

 not exceeding 4 mm. in length : named for the botanist, Joseph Woods. 



Mostly prairies or exposed dry slopes, Minnesota to Alberta, south to 

 Nebraska and New Mexico. In Minnesota native Rosa Woodsii 

 is rare, occurring in typical form along the western border of the state in 

 the vicinity of Bigstone Lake. An excessively prickly form of this rose, 

 apparently the "R osa Macounii" of Greene has become established 

 along railroad tracks in the vicinity of Minneapolis, probably introduced 

 from Montana or the Canadian plains. In the northern and northwestern 

 parts of the state occur forms more or less intermediate between this rose 

 and Rosa bland a. Their proper disposition is still in doubt. 



Rosa cinnamomea Linne 1753 Cinnamon Rose 



Tall bush, 2 m. in height, stems reddish, armed with somewhat hooked 

 broad-based infrastipular prickles about 5 mm. in length, often with other 

 smaller scattering prickles; leaves with 5-7 leaflets, leaflets narrowly ellipti- 

 cal, finely, sharply and simply serrate almost to the base, dull green, puber- 

 ulent above, paler and soft pubescent below, upper leaflets 2-3.5 cm. long, 

 1.2-1.8 cm. wide, rachis and petiole soft pubescent and sometimes slightly 

 glandular, stipules narrow or more or less widely dilated on flowering 

 twigs, the pair sometimes 12 mm. wide, veiny, more or less pubescent and 

 glandular ; flowering shoots borne on the old wood, flowers usually soli- 

 tary, fragrant, pedicels and receptacles nearly smooth, sepals up to 3 cm. 

 long, woolly pubescent, enlarged at the tips, the outer usually with 

 prominent lateral lobes, petals dull pink, flower about 4 cm. in diameter; 

 sepals persistent and erect in fruit ; hips elongated, tapering upwards, 

 12-15 mm. long, red : cinnamomea, cinnamon-like, probably from the 

 fragrance of the flowers. 



Native of northern Europe and northwestern Asia. The double flow- 

 ered form, Rosa cinnamomea var. foecundissisma, with 

 flat very double pink flowers is often planted in old-fashioned gardens. It 



