THE BOOK OF ROSES. 101 



V. Rosa Carolina, or Carolina Rose. 

 Rosa Virginiaca. 

 Rosa Palustris. 

 Rosa Corymbosa. 

 Rosa Pensylvanica. 

 JZosa Hudsoniana. 



Shrub, from two to eight feet high. 



Stem, straight, green, or of a purplish red, or brown. 



Thorns, solitary or geminated under the stipules; 



those of the suckers more numerous, straighter, 



and mingled with hristles. 

 Stipules, very long, narrow, and curling underwards ; 



naked, sometimes dentated and fringed. 

 Leafstalks, cottonous, sometimes armed with slight 



thorns. 

 Lea/lets, seven, lanceolated, simply and finely toothed ; 



smooth, and on the upper surface of a dark green ; 



cottonous and somewhat glaucous on the under sur- 

 face ; falling early in autumn. 

 Flowers, expanding from July to September, of a deep 



red ; in clusters of two or three. 

 Floral leaves, lanceolated, very concave, needle-shaped, 



sometimes arched, cottonous at the edge. 

 Flowerstalk, hispid. 



Calyx, spherical, hispid, of a dark green. 

 Sepals, entire, terminated by a long point, cottonous 



at the edge. 

 Petals, concave or flat, often longer than the sepals, 



undulated. 

 Disk, unapparent. 

 Styles, hairy. 

 Fruit, globular, hispid, scarlet; crowned with sepals 



till maturity. 



