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lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, 1.5-2 em. long, rather copiously glandular-hispid, spreading 
and at last deciduous; styles numerous, distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted in 
the bottom of the hypanthium. 
Type collected along the French Broad River between Paint Rock and Del Rio, Cocke County, 
Tennessee, August 25, 1897, Thomas H. Kearney 695 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
22. Rosa virginiana Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. Rosa no. 10. 1768. 
Rosa carolinensis Marsh. Arbust. 135. 1785. 
Rosa blanda Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 202, in part. 1789. 
Rosa lucida Ebrh. Beitr. 4: 22. 1789. 
Rosa rapa Bosc, Nouv. Cours. Agr. 11: 247. 1809. 
Rosa pennsylvanica Andr. Roses pl. 101. 1828. 
Rosa humilis lucida Best, Bull. Torrey Club 14: 256, in part. 1887. 
Rosa virginiana lucida Best; C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: 570. 1905. 
Rosa blanda Willmottiana Baker; Willm. Gen. Rosa 2: 308. 1911. 
- Stem 5-20 dm. high, stout, terete, glabrous, armed with stout prickles, which are 8-12 mm. 
long, straight or slightly curved but often somewhat reflexed, decidedly flattened at the base, 
only the young shoots bristly; stipules adnate, 1.5-3 cm. long, the lower narrow, the upper 
more or less dilated, glabrous or slightly pubescent, usually glandular-dentate, the free portion 
lanceolate, usually spreading; petiole and rachis usually prickly and sometimes glandular- 
hispid; free portion of the petiole 2-8 mm. long; leaflets 7—9, lance-elliptic, usually acute at 
both ends, serrate with numerous sharp strongly ascending teeth, dark-green, shining, and 
glabrous above, duller and pubescent on the veins or glabrous beneath, 2-6 cm. long; flowers 
corymbose, rarely solitary; pedicels 1-3 cm. long, glandular-hispid; hypanthium glandular- 
hispid, depressed-globose, 10-15 mm. broad at maturity; sepals narrowly lanceolate, caudate- 
attenuate, glandular-hispid on the back, 2—2.5 cm. long, after anthesis reflexed and soon 
caducous; petals rose-colored, 2-3 dm. long, obcordate; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; 
achenes attached in the bottom of the hypanthium. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Newfoundland to Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Redouté, Roses 1: pl. opp. 45; 2: pl. opp. 7 (double); Nouv. Duham. 7: pl. 7, 
f.2; Willm. Gen. Rosa pl. opp. 197; pl. opp. 198; pl. on 199; pl. opp. 202 (as R. humilis var.) ; 2: pl. opp. 
308 (as R. blanda Willmottiana) ; Jacq. Fragm. "pl. HO ap 7 Traill, Can. Wild FI. pl. 7 (as R. blanda) ; 
Andr. Roses fl. 101; pl. 102 (double). 
Rosa Bicknellii X virginiana. See under R. Bicknellii. 
Rosa blanda X virginiana. See under R. blanda. 
Rosa carolina X virginiana. This hybrid most resembles R. lucida in the shining leaflets, in 
the prickly and glandular rachis and in the corymbose inflorescence, but the habit of the plant is 
that of R. humilis, the stem being slender, often bristly, and the prickles being slender and straight. 
Farmingdale, New Jersey, July 4, 1910, Norman Taylor 2159. 
Rosa dasistema X virginiana. See under R. dasisteme. 
Rosa Lyoni X virginiana. Rosa humilis lucida Best, Bull. Torrey Club 14: 256, in part. 1887. 
This hybrid resembles most R. virginiana in habit, form, and color of the leaflets, which are quite shin- 
ing above, and in the corymbose inflorescence and stout prickles, but the leaflets are quite pubescent 
beneath and not of so dark acolor. Kingswood, New Jersey, June 20, 1887, Best. New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. 
Rosa nitida X virginiana. See under R. nitida. 
Rosa palustris X virginiana. See under R. palustris. 
Rosa serrulata X virginiana. ‘This resembles R. virginiana in habit, but is more glandular 
and the leaflets are double-toothed with gland-tipped teeth. The sepals are also more inclined to 
be lobed. ‘Top of Monte Sano, Auburn, Alabama, May 23, 1897, C. F. Baker. 
23. Rosa Lyoni Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 345. 1814. 
Rosa pusilla Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5: 218. 1820. 
Rosa lucida y T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 459. 1840. 
Rosa humilis villosa Best, Bull. Torrey Club 14: 256. 1887. 
Stem usually low, 3-15 dm. high, terete, glabrous, more or less bristly, especially the 
young shoots, armed with infrastipular prickles, which are spreading, usually slender and terete, 
4-8 mm. long, or rarely stouter, up to 10 mm. long, and then slightly flattened below; stipules 
adnate, usually narrow or the upper somewhat dilated, 1.5—2 cm. long, more or less villous, 
often somewhat glandular-dentate; petiole and rachis villous, sometimes prickly or glandular- 
hispid; free portion of the petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 5—7, oval to lance-elliptic, usually 
acute at both ends or rarely obtuse at the apex, 1.5—5 cm. long, regularly serrate, the lateral 
ones short-petioluled, rather thin and dull, sparingly pubescent or glabrate above, decidedly 
