Rosa. ROSACEA. 219 



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

 cles) glandular-hispid ; tube of the calyx sometimes smooth ; fruit depressed-globose, mostly 

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

 WtUd.; ^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. 4- Gr. I. c. R. lucida, Ehrh. beitr. 4. p. 11 ; Willd. sp. 2. p. 1068; " Jacq. frag, 

 t. 107./. 3 ;" Ell. sk. 1 . p. 563 ; Lindl. Ros. p. 17 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 602 ; Hook.fl. Bor.- 

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

 fl.l. p. 295. R. parviflora, Torr. ft. \. p. 484 ; Darlingt. fl. 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 feel 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 sohtary. 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-pubcscent 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 tube smooth and glaucous ; fruit globose. — Ait. Kew. 

 (ed. 1.) 2. p. 202; Jacq. frag. t. 105; Willd. sp. 2. p. 1065; Lindl. Ros. p. 25; Hook.fl. 

 Bor.-Am. I. p. 199; Torr. 4- Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. p. 460. R. Pennsylvanica, Michx. fl. l.p. 

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

 prodr. 2. p. 606. R. parviflora, var. inermis, 77. 77. Eaton in Transylv. journ. med. 1832. 



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

 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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