150 POPULAR FLORA. 



* * Leaflets 3 or 6, white-downy beneath : flowers small : petals white, erect. 



3. Garden Raspbekky. Stems with some slender hooked prickles as well as bristles ; petals shortei 



than the calyx; fruit red, &c., the grains minutely downy. Cult. R- Iilteus. 



4. Wild Red R. Stems very bristly; petals as long as the calyx; fruit pale red, very tender. Very 



common N. R- stiic/dsus. 



6. Black R. (or Thimdlebeeky). Plant glaucous all over; the long recurved stems and stalks 



beset with hooked prickles; fruit dark purple. Borders of woods and fields. li. (ncidenUdis. 



§ 2. BLACKBERRY. Fruit of large grains, remaining on the juicy receptacle, black or dark purple 



when ripe: petals white, spreading; leaflets 3 or 5. 



6. High Blackberry or Bramble. Stems mostly erect, angular, bearing stout curved prickles; 



young shoots hairy and glandular; leaflets ovate or oblong, pointed, downy underneath and prickly 

 on the midrib; flowers large, in racemes; fruit large, sweet. R. vUlosus. 



7. Low B. (or Dewberry). Stems long, trailing; leaves smaller and nearly smooth; flowers fewer, 



and the large sweet fruit ripe earlier than in the last. Sterile or rocky ground. R. Canadensis. 



8. Sand B. Stems low, but erect, with stout hooked prickles ; leaflets wedge-obovate, whitish-woolly 



beneath; fruit sweet. Sandy soil. New Jersey & S. R. cunt'ifbllus. 



9. Running Swamp-B. Stems slender, creeping, hooked-pricklj' ; leaves nearly evergreen, shining, 



obovate; flowers small; fruit of few grains, reddish until ripe, sour. Wet woods, N. R. his^ndus. 



Rose> Rosa. 



Calyx with an nm-shaped hollow tube (Fig. 360), bearing 6 leafy lobes at the top, 5 petals and 

 many stamens, and within enclosing many pistils attached to its walls. The ovaries ripen into bony 

 and hairy akenes, and the calyx makes a fleshy or pulpy, red and berry-like fruit {hi/)). — Shrubs, with 

 pinnate leaves of 3 to 9 leaflets. (Stigmas just rising to the mouth of the calyx, except in No. 1.) 

 # Wild Roses. But No. 1 is cultivated, especially in double-flowered varieties, and the Sweet-Brier, 



which came from Europe, is also kept in gardens, for its sweet-scented leaves, i'lowers in all 



bright rose-color. 



1. Prairie Rose. Stems climbing high, prickly; leaflets 3 or 5, large; petals deep rose-color turning 



pale; styles cohering together, and projecting out of tlie tube of the calyx; flowers in corymbs, 

 scentless, in summer. Edges of prairies and thickets ; W. and cult. ' R. seiifjera. 



2. Sweet-Brier R. (or Eglantine). Stems climbing, and with stout hooked prickles; leaflets 5 or 



7, roundish, downy and bearing russet fragrant glands beneath; hip pear-shaped. Road-side-!, 

 gardens, &c. R. ruiic/inbsa. 



3. Swamp R. Stems erect, 4° to 7° high, with hooked prickles; leaflets dull, 5 to 9; flowers m 



corymbs; hips rather bristly, broader than long. R. Carolina. 



4. Low Wild R. Stems 1° to 3° high, with mostly straight prickles; leaves smooth and commonly 



shining; flowers single or 2 to 3 together; hips as in the last Common. R. Ikcida. 



B. Bland R. Low, pale or glaucous, with few or no prickles; calyx and globular hips very smooth. 



Rocks: flowering early in summer. N. R. blanda. 



* 1= Cultivated species are very numerous and much mixed. The commonest arc: — 

 Cinnamon Rose, R. cinnumbmea. Damask R., R. Damnsc'ma. 



Scotch or BuuNET R., R. spirwsissima. Cabbage or Hundred-leaved R., R. centifblia. 



