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In rich woods, Nova Scotia to Minnesota, south to Pennsylvania, 

 southern New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan. Flowering 

 from June to September. 



Low or Pasture Rose 



Rosa virginiana Miller 



Plate 102 



A bushy shrub, a few inches to 3 or 4 feet high, sometimes higher; the 

 stems armed with slender or stout, straight or curved infrastipular spines, 

 and more or less prickly. Stipules entire. Leaves alternate with five or 

 sometimes seven rather thin ovate-oval or obovate leaflets, dull green or 

 somewhat shiny, coarsely toothed, one-half to 2 inches long, usually pointed 

 at the end, glabrous or pubescent beneath. Flowers few or solitary, 2 to 3 

 inches broad; pedicels and calyx usually glandular; calyx five-lobed, the 

 segments lanceolate, long pointed, sometimes dilated toward the end, 

 spreading and deciduous; petals five, obcordate, rose or pink, fading after 

 opening. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, glandular-hispid, about one- 

 third of an inch high. 



In dry or rocky soil, Newfoundland to Ontario and Wisconsin, south to 

 Georgia, Louisiana and Missouri. Flowering from May to July. The 

 Swamp Wild Rose (Rosa Carolina Linnaeus) is frequent in open or 

 wooded swamps and marshes. 



Apple Family 



M a 1 a c e a e 

 Black Chokeberry 



Aronia melanocarpa (Michaux) Britton 



Plate 103 



An extensively branching shrub, 3 to 8 feet high. Leaves obovate to 

 oval, the apex varying from blunt to pointed, narrowed or cuneate at the 

 base, short petioled, the margins crenulate, dark green above, paler beneath, 

 glabrous or nearly so when mature. Flowers numerous in terminal, com- 

 pound, leafy cymes; each flower about one-half of an inch broad; calyx and 



