HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



divided into doubly serrate, oblong to ovate leaflets, and are 

 downy, covered with small, dark glands which exhale the pleasant 

 aroma. Brandies, very prickly. June to August. 



When the dew is upon the sweetbrier rose, or after a shower, 

 the atmosphere around is filled with the fragrance. Often 

 cultivated, but found also in woods from New England to 

 South Carolina, westward to Tennessee. 



Dog Rose 



R. cantna. — A species naturalized from Europe, whose stem, but 

 not branches, is furnished with stout, recurved thorns. It reaches 

 a height of 10 feet, and is often straggling in its growth. Flowers, 

 single or 2 or 3 together, a pale pink, fading to almost white. 

 Leaflets, small, 5 to 7, with prominent stipules sharply serrate. 

 Petioles armed with a few weak prickles. June and July. 



Along roadsides, in waste places, on banks of rivers in 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, to Tennessee. 



The following bit of verse shows how the original white 

 rose became pink: 



"As erst in Eden's blissful bowers 

 Young Eve surveyed her countless flowers, 

 An opening rose of purest white 

 She marked with eye that beamed delight. 

 Its leaves she kissed, and straight it drew 

 From beauty's lips the vermil hue." 



Climbing or Prairie Rose. Michigan Rose 

 R. setigera. — One climbing species should be noticed, escaped 

 from cultivation in New England and found wild in our prairies. 

 It climbs by means of its hooked prickles. Leaflets, generally 3, 

 sometimes 5, serrate but not bristly. Flowers, 2? inches across, 

 several together, in corymbose clusters, with peduncles. 



Bristly Locust. Rose Acacia 



Robinia hispida. — Family, Pulse. Color, deep rose. Flowers, 

 large, with papilionaceous corolla, in drooping axillary racemes, 

 showy in this species, not fragrant. Leaves, pinnate, with one 

 odd leaflet. 



A shrub from 3 to 8 feet high, indigenous south of Virginia, 

 cultivated in the Northern States. 



Common Locust. False Acacia 

 R. Pseudo-Acacia is a tree familiar to inhabitants of Long Island 

 and other places around New York, and a favorite on account of 



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