ROSACEA 



Flowers white or pink, 1-1 1 in. diam., solitary or in cortjmbs of rarely 

 more than 3 ; Calyx-tube usually glabrous, globoid, sepals simple, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, persistent, eglandular ; Styles free ; Fruit a cynarrhodium, globose, 

 glabrous, purple to black, disk very small. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets 7-9, small, rounded, serrate, glabrous 

 above, eglandular. 



A deciduous shrub, 1-4 ft. ; Branches short, erect ; Tivigs rounded, 

 setigerous ; prickles crowded, unequal, subulate, expanded at base. 



Native of Britain. Also called Burnet Rose. Red galls in leaves and other 

 young parts formed by a mite {Rhodites spinosissimcc). 



DOWNY ROSE, Rosa villosa. 



Hedges and thickets. June, July. 



Flowers rose, solitary or in small terminal corymbs; Calyx-tube globose, 

 sepals copiously pinnate, long, persistent, glandular hairs black ; Corolla often 

 ciliate and glandular ; Styles free, sUghtly protruding from the mouth of 

 calyx in a dense tuft ; Fruit a cynarrhodium, globoid, bright red, sepals erect, 

 prickles small. 



Leaves alternate, leaflets 5 7, oblong or elliptical, biserrate, downy above, 

 eglandular, or nearly so beneath. 



A deciduous shrub, 3-G ft. ; Branches erect, or elongate and arching, rigid, 

 slender, prickles scattered, nearly straight. 



Native of Britain. Hooker says, " Chiefly distinguished from R. spinosissima 

 by its larger size, equal prickles, fewer very downy leaflets, which are more 

 constantly doubly serrate, and the more glandular fruit ; and from R. caiiina by 

 the straight prickles, and globose, glandular fruit." 



WILLOW-LEAVED PEAR, Pyms amygdaliformis. 



Gardens, plantations. May. 



Flowers white, in a lax corymb ; Fruit a pome, oval, small, woody, yellowish- 

 green, pedicel shoi-t. 



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