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THE ROSE FAMILY. 



S., but rather larger, and often tipped 

 with red. Carpels 6 to 12, not twisted. 



In meadows, pastures, and open 

 woods, generally dispersed over Europe 

 and Russian Asia, except the extreme 

 north. Rather frequent in England, 

 extending into southern Scotland, but 

 not recorded in the Irish Flora. Fl. 

 summer. 



Fig. 297. 



III. DRYAS. DRYAS. 



Tufted or creeping perennials, with undivided leaves and rather 

 large white flowers, growing singly on long peduncles. Calyx free, 8- 

 to 10-lobed. Petals 8 to 10, or rarely fewer. Carpels numerous, 

 crowded on the receptacle, 1-seeded and indehiscent, ending when 

 ripe in long feathery awns or tails, which are not jointed. 



The genus consists of but two, or perhaps three species, confined to 

 the high mountains or Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North 

 America. 



1. White Dryas. Dryas Octopetala, Linn. (Fig. 298.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 451. D. depressa, Bab. Man.) 



Stems short, much branched, prostrate or creeping, forming with 

 their crowded foliage dense spreading tufts. Leaves little more than 

 6 lines long, oblong, deeply and regularly crenate, green, glabrous, 

 and almost shining above, white and downy underneath. Peduncles 



