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5. Rosa gallica L. French Rose. Stem with straight 
slender prickles; leaflets usually 5, elliptic, cordate at the base, 
doubly glandular-serrate; flowers double, red and large. Lake 
County. 
6. Rosa setigera Mx. Prairie Rose. Stems climbing, with 
stout, rather straight prickles; leaflets 3-5, usually 3, ovate, 
sharply serrate; petals rose-colored, sometimes white. Clarke, 
Fayette, Jefferson, Greene, Williams, Hocking, Erie, Perry, 
Clermont, Muskingum, Montgomery, Lucas, Madison, Tuscara¬ 
was, Harrison, Butler, Lorain, Highland, Auglaize, Defiance, 
Gallia, Logan, Shelby, Miami. 
18. Agrimonia. Agrimony. 
Erect perennial herbs, leaves with large stipules, odd pinnate, 
with smaller leaf segments between the larger ones; flowers 
yellow, borne in narrow racemes; sepals 5; petals 5; stamens 
5-15; carpels 2; fruit with 1-2 dry achenes. 
1. Leaflets 11-17, lanceolate to narrowly lancelinear, bristles radiate. 
A. parviflora. (1). 
1. Leaflets 5-11, ovate to obovate or elliptic-oblong. 2. 
2. Fruit with few erect, ascending or comivant bristles. 3. 
2. Fruit with many radiating bristles. A. gryposepala. (2). 
3. Under surface of leaves usually glabrous or with few scattered hairs, 
minutely glandular. A. rostellata. (3). 
3. Under surface of leaves closely and softly pubescent. 4. 
4. Leaves glandular-dotted beneath; leaflets 5-11; fruit with slender 
ascending bristles nearly in a single row; roots tuberous. A. mollis. (4). 
4. Leaves not glandular-dotted beneath; leaflets 7-9; fruit with short 
comivant or inflexed bristles; roots not tuberous. A. striata. (5). 
1. Agrimonia parviflora Sol. Small-flowered Agrimony. Erect 
herb, 1-4 ft. high; stems brownish, hirsute; flowers small, in 
long, slender racemes; leaflets 11-17, lanceolate to narrowly 
lance-linear, acuminate, sharply serrate; flowers f-f in. broad; 
fruit top-shaped, ridges, with reflexed radiate bristles. Auglaize, 
Belmont, Cuyahoga, Putnam, Montgomery, Huron, Franklin, 
Scioto, Trumbull, Carroll, Ottawa, Logan, Wood, Union, 
Wyandot. 
2. Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr. Hairy Agrimony. Plants 
1-6 ft. tall with few bristly hairs, minutely glandular; leaves 
usually 7-foliate, leaflets large, l J^-5 in. long, elliptic or oblong, 
coarsely serrate; flowers less than in. broad, yellow; fruit 
top-shaped, deeply ridged. Stark, Logan, Belmont, Madison, 
Summit, Fayette, Eric, Ashtabula, Wayne, Harrison, Highland, 
Defiance. 
3. Agrimonia rostellata Wallr. Woodland Agrimony. Stems 
about 1-5 ft. tall, minutely glandular; leaflets mostly 5, ovate- 
oblong, erenate or dentate; flowers |-f in. broad; bristles erect 
