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LXXVI. EOSACE^. 



Kosebud. 



Rose. Fruit (mag.). 



Rose. Ripe carpel, entire aud cut vertically (mag.). 



Stem woody, usually thorny, erect or sarmentose. Leaves unequally pinnate, 

 with stipules adnate to the petiole, rarely simple, sometimes 0, and replaced by the 

 stipules. Flowers 5 , in a terminal corymb, white, pink or yellow. Receptacular 

 cupule (calyx-tube) usually ovoid, and contracted beneath the calyx, sometimes 

 cyathiform. Sepals foliaceous, imbricate. Petals 5, readily multiplying under 

 cultivation. Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous, inserted at the bottom or on 

 the inner wall of the receptacular cupule, which becomes fleshy when ripe. Seed 

 pendulous ; radicle superior. 



GENERA. 

 *Eosa. 'Hulthemia. 



Rosa berberifolia, Pallas, is a small aphyllous shrub of Central Asia, in ■which the leaf is replaced 

 by two connate stipules simulating a simple reticulate wedge-shaped toothed leaf with an entire 

 or bifid tip. A rudimentary normal leaf is sometimes developed in the notch or bifurcation of the 

 stipule. 



Tribe III. SANGUISOBBE^, A. Gray. 

 (PoTERiB^, Benilu et Hooh fiL) 



Sanguisorha. 



Flower without calyx and 



corolla (magO. 



Sanguisorba, 

 Pistil (mag.). 



Sanguisorba. 

 Diagram. 



Sanguisorba. 

 Fruit (mag.). 



Bipe carpel cut 

 vertically (mag.). 



Agrimony. 



Bipe carpel, entire and cut 



yertlcally (mag.). 



