ROSACEAE (ROSE FAMILY) 215 
Time of bloom: June to July. 
Seed-time: Hips ripe in September but remain on the bushes until 
winter. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Ontario and Michigan, southward to Vir- 
ginia and Tennessee. 
Habitat: Rocky pastures, along roadsides, and in fields. 
Every pure pink blossom and fragrant leaf of this plant seem a 
protest against its being called a weed. It came to us from Europe, 
and the pages of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, are full of its 
sweetness. But, 
‘‘With brambles and bushes in pasture too full, 
Poore sheepe be in danger and loseth their wull,” 
and cattle will not touch it nor even graze very near it, fearing the 
hooked prickers and apparently not liking its fragrance. (Fig. 
155.) 
Canes slender, four to eight feet high, brown when old, armed 
with strong, flattened, hooked, brown 
prickles ; between them the stem may be 
smooth, or, when young, may be set with 
fine bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, pin- 
nately compound, with five to seven 
roundish oval leaflets, rather thick, finely 
double-toothed, dark green and smooth 
above, but covered underneath with fine, 
soft hair and resinous, rust-colored glands 
that show very plainly under a lens; the 
broad stipules are also glandular. Flowers 
pink, not fragrant, usually about two 
inches broad, the five petals notched into 
a heart-shape at the outer edge, with a 
tuft of many yellow stamens in the 
center; calyx-lobes spreading and much 
divided, glandular-hairy, as are also the 
pedicels. Within the calyx-tube is a 
hollow disk on which the many pistils 
are set; ovaries hairy, becoming bony 
achenes. Hips about a half-inch long, fic. 155. — Sweet Brier 
ovoid, smooth, orange-red; under the (Rosa rubiginosa). xX 2. 
