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ROSEBUSH. 



Family: ROSACEAE. 



Reproductive system: ICOSANDRY, POLYGYNY. 



The red-leaved rosebush, Rosa glauca, DESF., [Translator's note: also called Rosa 

 rubrifolia] has a reddish stem about three feet high with recurved thorns. The leaves have 

 seven oval-oblong, smooth, serrate leaflets. The red flowers are suspended on short 

 cylindrical pedicels. The calyx terminates in five ribbons that are longer than the petals. 

 Three of them are bare; the other two have one or two small beards. The fruit is a smooth 

 ovoid berry that turns purple red when completely ripe. 



FLOWERS: May and June. 



RANGE: Dauphine, the Auvergne, and the Pyrenees. 



The Scotch rosebush, Rosa pimpinellifolia, LINN., ordinarily grows two or three 

 feet high and forms a dense bush. The stems are protected with thorns. The leaves have 

 seven or nine dentate oval rounded leaflets. They're quite similar to those of the garden 

 pimpernel. The flowers are white with some reddish spots. The calyx has five smooth 

 strips; they're entire and are all the same size. The corolla has five petals indented at the 

 lips. The fruit is a smooth rounded berry that's deep red when completely ripe. 



FLOWERS: May and June. 



RANGE: barren, stony ground in the southern provinces. 



The French rosebush, Rosa gallica, LINN., grows four or five feet high. The stem 

 has small thorns; the branches and peduncles are bristly. The leaves have four or five 

 dentate leaflets that are green on top and whitish underneath. 



