Rose (Rosacea) 97 



" But there are many kinds of Roses differing either 

 in the bignesse of the flowers, or the plant itself, roughnes 

 or smoothnes, or in the multitude of the flowers, or in the 

 fewnesse, or else in color and smell." Gerard's Herball, 

 London, 1597. 



Shining Rose. R. lucida, Ehrh. 



Flowers, pale red, generally in one to three pairs. Petals, 

 large, slightly two-lobed. Sepals, spreading after 

 flowering, presently falling away, the outer ones 

 often with two small lobes ; the sepals and the rounded 

 receptacle usually hairy. June, July. 



Leaves, smooth, and often shining above. Leaf-stem, 

 usually somewhat hairy, and with spines between the 

 "wings." Leaflets, mostly seven, acute or blunt, 

 coarse-toothed, stemless except the end one. Stems, 

 mostly greenish. Spines, straight or sometimes 

 hooked, becoming stout. Prickles, scattered. 



Fruit, rounded, red, small, depressed, with the fruit-stem 

 glandular-hairy. 



Found widely distributed in woods and thickets, and 

 waste grounds. 

 A shrub usually one to three feet high. 



Low Rose. R. hitmilis, Marsh. 

 This species is quite variable. It differs from the last 

 in the following items : 

 Outer Sepals, always more or less lobed. 

 Leaflets, usually thinner and paler. 

 Stipules, usually narrow. 

 Spines, usually straight and slender. 



Found, mostly in dry soil from Maine to Georgia, and 

 westward. 



