ROSE FAMILY 



acute at both ends ; terminal leaflet sometimes slightly obovate 

 and obtuse at the apex ; thick, bright green and shining. Au- 

 tumnal tints orange and red, brilliant. Stipules usually broad, 

 often glandular. 



Flowers. — June, July. Spray one to three-flowered, roses 

 • deep pink, one and a half to two and a half inches across. Calyx 

 and pedicels usually glandular. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, hispid or glandular, finally spreading, deciduous; 

 petals often obcordate. Styles distinct. Fragrant. 



Fruit. — Hip, scarlet, globose, about one-third of an inch 

 high, glandular-hispid. Clings to the branches through the 

 winter. 



Rosa nitida is one of our most beautiful native roses. 

 Its range is not very extensive and the plant seems not 

 to be generally known. Although damp swamps and 

 low moist grounds are its native home, transferred 

 to the garden it grows freely, making a broad mass 

 of bright foliage, and blooming with great profusion. 

 One character which may aid to identif}^ it are the red 

 shoots thickly beset with slender red spines barely 

 stouter than the red prickles. No other of our native 

 roses has just this combination. 



SWEETBRIER EGLANTINE 



Rosa rubiginbsa. 



Slender, four to six feet high, wands often longer, destitute 

 of prickles but armed with stout, recurved spines. Naturalized 

 from Europe ; found along roadsides from Nova Scotia to Vir- 

 ginia. 



Leaves. — Leaflets five to seven, one to one and a half inches 

 long, elliptical or oblong-ovate, rounded at base, doubly serrate, 

 obtuse at apex ; smooth above, densely glandular-pubescent and 

 resinous beneath ; very aromatic. Stipules one-half to five- 

 eighths of an inch long, rather broad. Petioles prickly. 



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