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of leaf and fruit it is clearly distinguishable from the more 

 common half-herbaceous thing so widely dispersed on open 

 prairies. There are traces of this same J?, rudiuscula in U. S. 

 Herb, from Kansas and Nebraska, but no satisfactory speci- 

 mens like these excellent ones by Mr. Bush. 



The two roses next succeeding, while apparently of low 

 growth and small, are removed from the R. heliophila alliance 

 by a truly shrubby growth, lack of the dense bristly prickli- 

 ness, and the presence of conspicuous infrastipular spines. 

 Their habitat is far beyond the prairies, in the region of the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



Rosa fimbriatula. Low, much branched, the branches 

 slender, scarcely armed except by pairs of infrastipular prickles, 

 these stoutish, straight, spreading ; leaves small, green and 

 glabrous on both faces, neither face shining, the lower paler ; 

 rachis very slender, but beset with a few singularly stout 

 prickles and a greater number of short ones that are strongly 

 gland-tipped ; stipules broad and foliaceous for the size of the 

 plant, entire, edged all around with short-stalked glands form- 

 ing a close series ; leaflets 7 or 9, small, short-petiolulate, 

 broadly cuneate-obovate, very obtuse, deeply and finely serrate 

 all around except at and near the base : flowers in corymbs of 

 3 to 5 at the ends of the branches: fruits small, depressed- 

 globose, smooth and glabrous ; sepals persistent, erect, more 

 or less stipitate-glandular. 



The type specimens of this are from Montana, and were 

 collected by Lester F. Ward, in what year we are not informed ; 

 but they are autumnal specimens, the date being given as 

 Sept. 1. The locality is specified as "Right bank of the 

 Missouri River, 15 miles below Round Butte." Some one 

 appears to have named the plant as R. Calif ornica var. ultra- 

 montana ; but a note attached to the sheet, in the hand of Mr. 

 F. Cr^pin, reads '' ^-a. Rosa Woodsii, Lindl. ? " The trouble 

 with Rosa Woodsii is, that no one can find, anywhere in the 

 West, a wild rose answering to the description that Lindley 



