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strongly reflexed and have on them a velvety pubescence. They are also 

 deciduous. When young the deep red hips are covered with a bloom. 



7?. riibiginbsa, the sweet brier which strays along roadsides and in waste 

 places and sends out a slender, wand-like spray of bloom shading from pink 

 to white, is distinguishable through its small fragrant leatlcts being doubly 

 serrate and glandular pubescent underneath. It is an introduced rose, the 

 " Eglantine," of which Chaucer, Spencer, and Shakespeare sung. 



Happily there is little uncertainty about a rose being a rose, and the wild 

 ones are known to the amateur as well as to the botanist ; but it is perhaps 

 the latter who mostly distinguishes between the species. Those that have 

 been mentioned are notable ones through our range and beautiful as are all 

 the members of this large genus. 



Another exquisite one is known as Macartney rose, Rosa bracteata. It 

 bears small, obovate and lustrous leaflets and many large creamy white 

 flowers, the calyxes and stems of which are very pubescent. 



THE APPLE FAMILY. 



Porndcece. 



Trees or shrubs 7vith alternate, simple or compound leaves, early 

 falling stipules and perfect, regular floivers, growing either solitary, or 

 in raceme or cyniose clusters. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary. Petals : 

 five, mostly clawed. Stametis : often numerous. 



AMERICAN MOUNTAIN ASH. 



Sorbus Americana. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Apple. White. Scentless. North Carolina alons the May\ June. 



Allcglianies^ northwarci. Fruit : Se/>tei>il>er. 



Floiuers : small; growing in large, flat compound cymes. Calyx: urn-shaped; 

 five-lobed. Corolla: with five rounded, short-clawed petals. Fruit: numerous, 

 bright red, berry-hke pomes about the size of large peas and having a black spot 

 at the apex. Leaves: compound; odd-pinnate, with reddish grooved stalks, and 

 from nine to seventeen almost sessile, long-ovate or lanceolate leaflets, taper- 

 pointed at the apex and pointed or rounded at the base; finely serrate ; bright 

 green above paler below and glabrous on both sides at maturity. Bark: dull 

 brown; almost smooth ; astringent. 



This slender shrub, or sometimes tree is one more of the beautiful indi- 

 viduals which clothe the hillsides with life and colour. Early in the season 

 often as many as a hundred tiny white blossoms are packed away in its 



