150 rorLLAU ILOKA. 



* * Leaflets 3 or 5, white-dowii}- beneath: flowers small: petals white, erect. 



3. Gakdkx TiAsruKUHY. Steins with some sleiidor liooked jjrickles as well as bristles; petals shorter 



than the culyx; fruit red, &c., tlie grains minutely downy. Cult. li. Idmis. 



4. Wild IIkd R. Stems very bristly; petals as long as the calyx; fruit pale red, very tender, ^'ery 



common N. R. slriijdsvs. 



5. Clack R. (or Thimbleberry). Plant glaucous all over; the long recurved stems and stalks 



beset with hooked prickles; fruit dark purple. Borders of woods and fields. R. occifleiitiilis. 



§ 2. BLACKBERRY. Fruit of large grains, remaining on the juicy receptacle, black or dark purple 

 when ripe: petals white, spreading; leaflets 3 or 5. 



6. High BlacivBerey or Bramble. Stems mostly erect, angular, bearing stout curved prickles; 



young shoots hairy and glandular; leaflets ovate or oblong, pointed, downy underneath and prickly 

 on the midrib; flowers large, in racemes; fruit large, sweet. R. viUusus. 



7. Low B. (or Dewberry^). Stems long, trailing; leaves smaller and nearly smooth ; flowers fewer, 



and the large sweet fruit ripe earlier than in the last. Sterile or rocky ground. R. Canadensis. 



8. Saxd B. Stems low, but erect, with stout hooked prickles; leaflets wedge-obovate, whitish-woolly 



beneath; fruit sweet. Sandy soil. New Jersey & S. R. cundfulius. 



9. Running Swajip-B. Stems slender, creeping, hooked-pricklj^ leaves nearly evergreen, shining, 



obovate; flowers small; fruit of few grains, reddish until ripe, sour. Wet woods, N. R. hispidus. 



Rose. Rosa, 



Calyx with an urn-shaped hollow tube (Fig. SCO), bearing 5 leafy lobes at the top, 5 petals and 

 many stamens, and within enclosing many pistils attached to its walls. The ovaries ripen into bony 

 and hairy akenes, and the calyx makes a fleshy or pulpy, red and berry-like fruit {hq)). — Sln-ubs, with 

 pinnate leaves of 3 to 9 leaflets. (Stigmas just rising to the mouth of the calyx, except in No. 1.) 



* Wild Roses. But No. 1 is cultivated, especially in double-flowered varieties, and the Sweet-Brier, 

 which came from Europe, is also kept in gardens, for its sweet-scented leaves. Flowers in all 

 bright rose-color. 



1. Prairie Rose. Stems climbing high, prickly; leaflets 3 or 5, large; petals deep rose-color turning 



pale; styles cohering together, and projecting out of the tube of the calyx; flowers in corymbs, 

 scentless, in summer. Edges of prairies and thickets ; W. and cult. R. setigera. 



2. Sweet-Brier R. (or Eglantine). Stems climbing, and Avith stout hooked prickles; leaflets 5 or 



7, roundish, downy and bearing russet fragrant glands beneath; hip pear-shaped. Road-sides, 

 gardens, &c. R. ruhlgiiwsa. 



3. Swamp R. Stems erect, 4° to 7° high, with hooked prickles; leaflets dull, 5 to 9; flowers in 



corymbs ; hips rather bristly, broader than long. R. Carulina. 



4. Low Wild R. Stems 1° to 3° high, with mostly straight prickles; leaves smooth and commonly 



shining; flowers single or 2 to 3 together; hips as in the last. Common. R. lucida. 



5. Bland R. Low, pale or glaucous, with few or no prickles; calyx and globular hips very smooth. 



Rocks: flowering early in summer. N. R. lilanda. 



* * Cultivated species are very numerous and much mixed. The commonest are: — 

 Cinnamon Rose, R. ciimamomea. Damask R., R. Dnmnschia. 



Scotch or Burnet R., R. sjnnosissima. Cabbage or Hundred-leaved R., R. centifblia. 



