130 ’ WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS, 
1. BR. seti’gera, Mz. Stems climbing, — with stout nearly straight 
prickles ; leaflets 3-5, ovate, acute ; flowers corymbed ; styles cohering 
in a column as long as the stamens 
Pricxiy Rosa. Prairie Rose. _ Climbing Rose. 
St d climbin ~20 feet in one season, Pettoles g 
lar. Leaflets ac cute, shar nop fe rrate, smoo oath or Foy beneath, rheswea ise ay 
inodorous, deep rose color cha nging tow landular. Frutt g 
Borders of prairies : Ohio, Illinois and  roathoata ot July. 
Obs. This species is often cultivated, and is well cpg to train 
along walls, palisades, &c. It is the only native climbing 
2. R. leviga’ta, Mz. Glabrous; stems armed with strong, often 
minate curved epareh leaves 3- Saga 5) Liste a leaflets 
coriaceous ; ;-atipales 66 taceous, deciduo flowers solitary, terminal ; 
tube of calyx ovoid, ere" with Sane a a bristles, 
Smoorn Ross. Che: 
Stem with long — branches 15- bc aaa act _— Leaves persistent, often prickly 
Flowers 8 oes 
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South Car sing te Encik isiana. 
Obs. This evergreen species has long been cultivated at the South as 
a “ Cherokee Rose ;” its song is cad heat It is crane commended 
a hedge. gla by Exurorr. “Tn rural economy,” he says, “ this 
Slant will one day become very impo eta For he's purpose of | ee 
1edges, thers is perhaps no plant which unites so ‘i se vantages.” 
This Rose, however, will not stand our northern winte 
3. Caroli L, Stem smooth, armed with stout recurved stipular 
prickles ; leaflets mostly 5-7, 0 oblong-oval or elliptic-lanceolate, finely 
serrate, somewhat glaucous beneath ; flowers corymbose. 
CaroLin oy an ose. 
Stem 4-6 fect high, with numerous purple branches. Leaflets 1~2 inches long. Flowers 
mostly in — orymbs of = 6or7inacluster. P red or purplish. Fruit (i.e. 
al —_ yz-tube) depressed globose, a little glan alee -hiopte, dark red and shining 
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Siens swampy grounds and thickets : Northern and Middle States. Fl. June-July. Fr. 
Obs. This is often a troublesome plant in wet meadows and low 
grounds, form ide unsightly thickets with prio ie if neglected. 
Another native ea R. ln’ Ehrh., the Dwarf Wild Rose, is 
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