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Sweetbrier. Wild Rose. Eglantine (Rosa ruhiginosa). 
Rose family. 
A bush with maximum height of six feet with small, rounded, 
doubly toothed leaflets and backward-bending prickles. Fruit 
oval, resembling large berry (one-half to three-fourths inch long 
or larger) sometimes called " hips." 
" Rich store of scarlet hips is mine." 
— Wordsworth. 
Dog Rose (Rosa canina). 
Similar to the Sweetbrier but with singly toothed leaflets, 
and fruit never over three-fourths of an inch long. Pasture Rose 
(Rosa humilis) is a low bush, with slender stem and slender, 
generally straight prickles below the leafstalks. Fruit more or 
less globular. Swamp Rose (Rosa Carolina) is a rather tall 
bush, sometimes eight feet high, with stout, curving prickles. 
Leaflets generally seven, pointed at each end and with stems. 
Fruit more or less globular. 
Winterberry. Black Alder (Ilex verticillata) . Holly 
family. 
A shrub, sometimes tall, with leaves oval or inversely egg- 
shaped, pointed, toothed. Fruit a small coral-red berry with 
a black spot (stigma) at the top, solitary or spirally arranged 
on the branches with short stalks; nutlets four to six. Early 
summer. 
This is an extremely decorative shrub in the fruiting season, 
and the berries persist well into the winter. It is apt to be foimd 
in rather low ground near the water, whether fresh or salt. It 
grows in profusion, for example, on the edge of the sand dunes 
at Ipswich, where this sketch was made. 
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