PINK WILD FLOWERS 
ten feet in length, and has short, stout, hooked spines. 
The stipules, or wings, which sheath the leaf stems, 
are broad and pointed. The leaflets are rather thick- 
textured and oval in shape. This Rose resembles 
somewhat the Sweetbrier, but the foliage is single- 
toothed and does not possess the aromatic fragrance 
of the latter. It is abundant in the Delaware Valley, 
and is more or less common from Nova Scotia to New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and also in Tennessee. This 
Rose is the Cat-whin and Canker-bloom of Shakespeare. 
SWEETBRIER. EGLANTINE 
Risa rubiginssa. Rose Family. 
You can positively identify the. Sweetbrier by the 
delightful, aromatic fragrance of its leaves. It is a 
slender growing species, very common everywhere 
in dry, rocky pastures and waste places during June 
and July. This is the exalted Eglantine of Chaucer, 
Spenser and Shakespeare. The gracefully arching 
branches are very leafy, and are armed with many. 
stout and strongly hooked or recurved prickles. It 
grows from four to six feet long. The leaves are com- 
pounded of from five to seven very small, rather thick, 
oval or oblong and sharp, double- toothed leaflets, 
which are densely covered on the underside with tiny, 
dark, sticky glands, and these exhale the pleasing per- 
fume. The leaf-stems clasp the stalk with a pair of 
narrow, pointed wings or stipules. The small, creamy- 
pink flowers are generously clustered along the main 
stalk. They have five curving, heart-shaped petals, 
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