Parr 6, 1918] ROSACEAE 491 
4. Rosa setigera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 295. 1803. 
Rosa eee ae terest ales Lindl. Ros. Monog. 123. 1820. 
Rosa trifoliata Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5: 213. 1820. Not R. trifoliata Bosc, 1821. 
Rosa fenestrata Donn (Hort. Cantab. ed. 7. 154, name only. 1812); Tratt. Ros. 2: 187. 1823. 
Stems 2-5 m. high, climbing, glabrous, terete, often reddish on the sunny side, armed 
with scattered, curved prickles, which are 4-8 mm. long and flattened below; stipules adnate, 
1-2 cm. long, usually narrow, glabrous, glandular-ciliate on the margins; free portions lanceo- 
late, acuminate, spreading; petiole and rachis glandular-hispid and often with a few prickles; 
leaflets 3 or on the new shoots sometimes 5, the median long-petiolulate, the lateral nearly 
sessile, lanceolate, or rarely ovate, acute or rounded, or the median rarely subcordate at the 
base, 4-9 cm. long, dark-green, glabrous and shining above, pale but glabrous beneath except 
the veins, which are slightly glandular; flowers corymbose; pedicels glandular-hispid; hy- 
panthium globose or rounded-ellipsoid, more or less glandular-hispid, in fruit about 1 cm. broad; 
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about 15 mm. long, glandular-hispid on the back, tomentulose 
within, reflexed and deciduous; petals 2-3 cm. long, rose-colored; styles exserted, united, 
glabrous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ohio to North Carolina, Florida, and Kansas; also collected in New York state. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Lindl. Ros. Monog. pl. 15 [poor]; Newhall, Vines NE. Am. f. 40; Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1965; ed. 2. f. 2307; Cycl. Am. Hort. f. 2152, 2153; Willm. Gen. Rosa fl. opp. 71; 
Garden & Forest 10: f. 42; Stand. Cycl. Hort. f. 3438, 3439; Meehan’s Monthly 8: pl. 5. 
5. Rosa rubifolia R. Br.; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.3: 260. 1811. 
Rosa kentukensis Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. ah Bie 213. 1820. 
Rosa cursor Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5: 215.° 1820. 
Rosa mutabilis Bradb.; James, Long’s Exped. 1: 69. 1823. Not R. mutabilis Dum.-Cours. 1811. 
Rosa setigera tomentosa T. & G. FI.N. Am. 1: 458. 1840. 
Stem 2-4 m. high, climbing, round, glabrous, armed with scattered prickles, which are 
4-10 mm. long, flattened below and more or less curved; stipules adnate, 1-2 cm. long, very 
narrow, more or less pubescent and copiously glandular-ciliate on the margins, petioles and 
rachis glandular and sometimes prickly; leaflets 3 or rarely 5, usually ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 
rounded at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex, serrate with gland-tipped teeth, glabrous 
and rather dull above, pale and densely short-villous, almost velutinous beneath, 3-7 cm. 
long; flowers corymbose; pedicels glandular-hispid; hypanthium globose or rounded-ellipsoid, 
glandular-hispid, in fruit about 1 cm. broad, purple; sepals ovate, abruptly acuminate, glandular 
as well as pubescent on the back, 12-15 mm. long; petals rose-colored, obcordate, 1.5—2.5 cm. 
long; styles exserted, united, glabrous. Perhaps not specifically distinct from the preceding. 
TYPE LocALIty: North America. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario and New York to Georgia, Texas, and Nebraska. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Redouté, Roses 3: pl. opp. 71; Loud. Arb. 2: f. 516. 
II. Indicae. Upright or procumbent species with few mostly hooked prickles and I- 
many-flowered inflorescence; leaflets 3-5, rarely 7, usually firm; sepals entire or lobed, reflexed 
after anthesis; stipules adnate, narrow; styles conspicuously exserted, but distinct. Intro- 
duced Asiatic species. 
6. Rosa indica L. Sp. Pl. 492. 1753. 
Rosa chinensis K. Koch, Dendr. 1: 272. 1869. Not R. chinensis Jacq. 1765. 
Rosa sinica Murr. Syst. ed. 13. 394. 1774. 
Rosa canina Thunb. Fl. Jap. 214. 1784. Not R. canina. 1753. 
Stem erect, stout, terete, 1-2 m. high, armed with stout, flat, almost straight prickles 
5-8 mm. long, or sometimes unarmed; stipules adnate, often red, narrow, 1—2 cm. long, gla- 
brous, glandular-denticulate or glandular-ciliate; free portion subulate-attenuate; rachis and 
petiole glabrous or nearly so, sometimes glandular and usually somewhat prickly; leaflets 3-5, 
rarely 7, ovate, acuminate, evergreen, finely-serrate, shining and dark-green above, paler 
beneath, glabrous, 2—6 cm. long, the lateral ones petioluled; flowers few, corymbose or solitary; 
pedicels glabrous or slightly glandular; hypanthium pear-shaped, acute at the base, glabrous, 
