ROSE FAMILY 



stalked; pale green above and slightly paler beneath. Stipules 

 broad, dilated, entire or slightly glandular-toothed. 



Flowers. — June, July. Stems one to three-flowered, rarely 

 more, pink, two and a half to three inches across. Calyx-lobes 

 acuminate, entire, hispid-pubescent, persistent and erect upon 

 the fruit ; petals obovate or obcorclate, erose ; styles distinct. 



Fruit. — Hip, bright scarlet, globose or pyriform or obpyri- 

 form, glabrous, half to five-eighths of an inch long, crowned 

 with the calyx-lobes. 



The distinctive characters of Rosa blanda are its low 

 habit, its unarmed stems, and its broad dilated stipules. 

 The hip is globose or pyriform or obpyriform, wholly 

 destitute of glandular hairs, and when mature still re- 

 tains the calyx-lobes, which approach each other. 



The Arkansas Rose, Rosa arkansana, was formerly 

 considered a variety of Rosa blanda but is now re- 

 garded as a distinct species. Like the type it is low, 

 and loves the meadows ; but the stems, instead of being 

 smooth, are densely prickly with very sharp and very 

 slender bristles. The leaflets frequently number 

 eleven. The stipules are narrow and the pink blos- 

 soms appear in corymbs, rarely if ever solitary. In 

 habit and general appearance it is like the Meadow 

 Rose, but it varies considerably in what are consid- 

 ered the specific characters. It is a rose of the 

 prairies, ranging from Minnesota and Iowa to Ne- 

 braska, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico. The hips 

 are little globes three-eighths to half an inch in 

 diameter. 



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