

20 THE ROSE. 



banks of the Northern States, and on the glaciers 
of the northerly regions of the New World, its 
bright corolla unfolding itself immediately on 
the melting of the snows. This shrub is found 
as far north as the frozen deserts, between 70° 
and 75°. R. Hudsonensis is found on the shores 
of Hudson’s Bay, within the polar circle, where 
it produces clusters of double pale flowers. FR. 
fraxinifolia has small red, heart-shaped petals, 
and is found in Newfoundland and Labrador. &. 
nitida (wild shining dwarf rose), which has deep 
red flowers, abounds on the Northern coasts, and 
is used by the Esquimaux for decorating their 
hair and seal skin dresses. R. lucida (Ehrhart, 
low wild Rose) is found in the marshes of Caro- 
lina, in Missouri and westward to Nebraska. R&R. 
Woodsii on the Banks of the Missouri and #. 
Carolina (Linnzeus), Swamp rose in the adjoining 
marshes. Rosa setigera (the Prairie Rose), a fine 
species, the only American climbing rose; several 
varieties and forms in cultivation. The rose of 
Mexico is R. Montezuma, a sweet scented thorn- 
less species, which abounds in the highest parts 
of Cerro Ventoso near San Pedro, where it was 
discovered by the learned travellers Humboldt 


