pink WILD FLOWERS 



ten feet in length, and has short, stout, hooked spines. 

 The stipules, or wings, which sheath the leaf stems, 

 are broad and pointed. The leaflets are rather thick- 

 textured and oval in shape. This Rose resembles 

 somewhat the Sweetbrier, but the foliage is single- 

 toothed and does not possess the aromatic fragrance 

 of the latter. It is abundant in the Delaware Valley, 

 and is more or less common from Nova Scotia to New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania, and also in Tennessee. This 

 Rose is the Cat- whin and Canker-bloom of Shakespeare. 



SWEETBRIER. EGLANTINE 



Rosa rubiginosa. Rose Family. 



You can positively identify the Sweetbrier by the 

 delightful, aromatic fragrance of its leaves. It is a 

 slender growing species, very common everywhere 

 in dry, rocky pastures and waste places during June 

 and July. This is the exalted Eglantine of Chaucer* 

 Spenser and Shakespeare. The gracefully arching 

 branches are very leafy, and are armed with many 

 stout and strongly hooked or recurved prickles. It 

 grows from four to six feet long. The leaves are com- 

 pounded of from five to seven very small, rather thick, 

 oval or oblong and sharp, double - toothed leaflets, 

 which are densely covered on the underside with tiny, 

 dark, sticky glands, and these exhale the pleasing per- 

 fume. The leaf-stems clasp the stalk with a pair of 

 narrow, pointed wings or stipules. The small, creamy- 

 pink flowers are generously clustered along the main 

 stalk. They have five curving, heart-shaped petals, 



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