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segments as long as the petals, with a foliaceous elongated extremity, and (as also the pedun- 

 cles) glandiilar-liispid ; tube of the calyx sometimes smooth ; fruit depressed-globose, mostly 

 smooth when mature.— Torr. tj- Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. p. 458. R. lucida and parviflora, Ehrh. ; 

 Willd.; ^-c. 



var. 1 : leaflets crowded, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate-ovate, acute or obtuse ; the under 

 surface scarcely pale, smooth or slightly pubescent on the veins ; petioles mostly smooth. 

 Torr. (J- Gr. I. c. R. lucida, Ehrh. heitr. 4. p. 11 ; Willd. sp. 2. p. 1068; " Jacy. frag, 

 t. 107./. 3 ;" Ell. sk. \.p. 563 ; Lindl. Ros. p. 17 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 602; Hook.Ji. Bor.- 

 Am. -1. p. 199. R. Carolina, Du Roi. R. Rapa, Base; DC. I. c. R. Caroliniana, Michx. 

 fl. 1. p. 295. R. parviflora, Torr. Jl.\. p. 484; Darlingt. Jl. Cest. p. 310. 



var. 2 : leaflets less crowded, oval, mostly very obtuse, paler but often nearly smooth 

 underneath ; petioles pubescent or smooth. Torr. <^- Gr. I. c. R. parviflora, Ehrh. I. c. ; 

 Willd. I. c. ; Lindl. Ros. p. 20. R. lucida, Torr. I. c. 



About 2 feet high, slender ; the branches usually greenish. Prickles 3-5 lines long, 

 mostly straight and horizontal, not dilated at the base ; 2 at the base of each petiole often 

 deciduous. Leaflets an inch or an inch and a quarter long (shorter in the 2nd variety) : 

 petioles often a little prickly ; the pubescence not glandular. Flowers often larger than in 

 the preceding species, seldom more than three together, and often solitary. Tube of the calyx 

 sparingly hispid with glandular hairs ; the segments also hispid towards the base, tapering 

 into a long narrow point which is lanceolate and foliaceous at the extremity. Petals pale red. 

 Fruit about half an inch in diameter, dark-red. 



Borders of swamps ; also in dry thickets, fields and hill-sides. Flowers two or three weeks 

 earlier than the preceding species. 



3. Rosa blanda. Ait. • Early Wild Rose. 



Stems and sterile branches (reddish) armed with scattered unequal straight and slender 

 deciduous prickles, the flowering branches and petioles mostly naked ; leaflets 5-7, oval or 

 oblong, obtuse, unequally serrate, not shining above, pale and commonly minutely pubescent 

 underneath, the petiole tomentose-pubescent or sometimes 'smooth ; stipules much dilated, with 

 entire or glandular-serrate margins ; flowers 1-3, on short smooth peduncles ; segments of 

 the calyx shorter than the petals, the lube smooth and glaucous ; fruit globose. — Ait. Keiv 

 (ed. 1.) 2. p. 202; Jacq.frag. t. 105; Willd. sp. 2. p. 1065; Li?idl. Ros. p. 25; Hook.Ji 

 Bor.-Am. 1. p. 199; Torr. <^ Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. p. 460. R. Pennsylvanica, Miclix.fl. l.p 

 296 (in part). R. gemella, Willd. eniim. 1. p. 344 (partly). R. fraxinifolia, Seringe in DC 

 prodr. 2. p. 606. R. parviflora, var. inermis, //. H.Eaton in Transylv. journ. med. 1832 



Stems 1-3 feet high, often unarmed or with only short prickles towards the base. Ler-.flcts 

 usually 7. Flowers about 2 inches in diameter. Petals pale red, obcordate. Fruit crowned 

 with the persistent connivent calyx-segments. 



On rocks, and along the banks of rivers in dry situations. Northern part of the State, and 

 on the banks of the Mohawk. Latter part of May - June. 



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