256 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



Prickly shrubs ; leaves unequally pinnate ; stipules united 



with the petioles ; floiuers showy. 



** styles distinct, included ; flowers red or white. 



E. Carolina, L. Stein erect, smooth, armed with stout 

 recurved stipular prickles ; leaflets 5-9, oblong or elliptical, 

 acute, finely serrate, dull and smoothish above, the lower 

 surface paler, or, like the prickly petioles and caudate 

 calyx-lobes tomentose ; floivers single or corymbose, calyx- 

 tube and peduncles glandular-hispid. Stem 4°-6^ high, 

 commonly pui-plish ; fruit depressed-globose, glandular. 



E. rubiginosa, L. (Eglantine.) Stem erect or curv- 

 ing, armed with very stout prickles; leaflets 5-7, oval or 

 obovate, serrate, glandular beneath ; flowers mostly soli- 

 tary, on hispid peduncles ; fruit obovate. Branches yel- 

 lowish green ; leaves fragrant. 



E. L^viGATA, Michx. {Cherokee Rose.) Stem long, 

 trailing, smooth, the branches armed with very stout and 

 curved prickles; leaves evergreen, mostly trifoliate; leaf- 

 lets smooth and shining, lanceolate, the midrib hispid; 

 stipules diecidiwows', flowers large, solitary, white; calyx 

 very bristly. 



E. FOLIOLOSA, Nutt. • Branches slender, glabrous, armed 

 with veiy weak scattered deciduous prickles, and some- 

 times with persistent short and nearly straight stipular 

 prickles ; leaflets 7-11, linear-oblong, glabrous, shining 

 above, sharply serrate, crowded, the lower pair close to the 

 narrow glandular-ciliate stipules (the species described by 

 Leavenworth sometimes only ^ in length) ; leaves much 

 crowded on the flowering branches ; petiole and midrib 

 often setose and pubescent; floivers mostly solitary, small, 

 and almost sessile ; calyx glandular-hispid, the segments 

 reflexed often with lateral appendages ; peduncles i'-J' in 

 length; fruit subglobose, somewhat hispid. 



