ROSE FAMILY. Rosacese, 



A questionable species so closely con- 

 R^m^humUis^ nected with Bosa lucida, that intergrading 

 types prevent a satisfactory separation of 

 the two. Under the name Bosa humilis lucida {Bosa 

 lucida of Gray's Manual, sixth ed.), the rose of New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the west is described by Brit- 

 ton and Brown as having thick shining leaves with 

 broad stipules, and numerous flowers. Under Bosa 

 humilis, the description embraces a narrow, toothless 

 stipule, usually five leaflets, thin and somewhat shining, 

 few or solitary flowers, a glandular-hairy calyx and 

 stem, and sepals commonly lobed. 



Northeastern "^^^^^ ^® ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ northeast, 



Rose limited to that section lying between Mas- 



Bosa nit Ida sachusetts and Newfoundland. It is char- 

 f*'"*^ acterized by a stem thickly crowded with 



uy t>?'zs/Zz/pricA:Zes, and spines scarcely stouter. 



The 5-9 leaflets are ovate pointed, shining green, and 

 sharpl}^ toothed ; the stipules are broad. Flowers pale 

 pink, solitary, or very few in a cluster ; the fruit is globu- 

 lar, and the sepals are not lobed. A low species rarely 

 over 20 inches high. On tlie borders of sw^amps. 

 Sweetbrier '^'^^ w'ild rose or eglantine of the poets, 



Rosarubiginosa adventive from Europe. It is remarkable 

 Pink for its sweet-scented foliage which is rem- 



June-July iniscent of the fragrance of green apples, 



and for its long, arching stems, which are beautiful 

 with compactly set clusters of pure pink bloom. The 

 very small 5-7 leaflets are double-toothed, roundish, deep 

 green above, and lighter colored beneath, where they 

 are resinous, and aromatic when crushed ; the leaves are 

 also characteristically glandular-hairy. The somewhat 

 small flowers are pink, or pale creamy pink, and clus- 

 tered along the main stem upon short stalks. The de- 

 cidedl}' recurved spines and the stem are madder brown 

 when old. 4-6 feet high. Common everywhere from 

 Tenn. and Va., northward. Another foreign species, 

 Rosa canina, but slightly separated from Bosa mibigi- 

 nosa, has usually simph^ toothed leaves which are not 

 BO odorous. Common in the valley of the Delaware, 



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