An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 2. Rosa blanda Ait. Smooth or Meadow- Rose. Fig. 2308. Rosa blanda Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 202. 1789. Erect, low, 2°-4° high; entirely unarmed or with a few straight slender prickles on the stem. Stipules rather broad; leaflets 5-7, short-stalked, usually pale beneath, oval or obovate, obtuse at the apex, commonly nar-
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 2. Rosa blanda Ait. Smooth or Meadow- Rose. Fig. 2308. Rosa blanda Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 202. 1789. Erect, low, 2°-4° high; entirely unarmed or with a few straight slender prickles on the stem. Stipules rather broad; leaflets 5-7, short-stalked, usually pale beneath, oval or obovate, obtuse at the apex, commonly nar- rowed or cuneate at the base, I'-iY long, simply and sharply serrate ; flowers pink, some- times 3' broad, corymbose or solitary; calyx- lobes lanceolate, acuminate, entire, hispid- pubescent, persistent and erect on the fruit; petals obovate, erose or sometimes obcordate; styles separate; fruit globose or pyriform, glabrous or nearly so, about 5' in diameter. In moist rocky places, Newfoundland to Ver- mont and northern \ew Jersey, west to Ontario, Assiniboia and Missouri. Pale or early wild-rose. June-July. 3. Rosa acicularis Lindl. Prickly Rose. Fig. 2309. Rosa acicularis Lindl. Ros. Monog. 44. pi. 8. 1820. Rosa Sayi Schwein. in Keating, Narr. Long's Exp. 2: 388. 1824. R. Engelmanni S. Wats. Card. &; For. 2: 376. 1889. Bushy, low, l°-4° high, the stems and often the branches, densely armed with straight prickles; infrastipular spines none. Stipules mostly broad; leaflets 5-9 (rarely 3), oval or oval-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, rounded at the base, simply or doubly serrate, often more or less resinous- pubescent, 1-2' long; flowers usually solitary, 2}'-3' broad: calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate or sometimes dilated above, entire or few-toothed, persistent and erect upon the fruit; styles distinct; fruit globose or ovoid, sometimes i' long, gen- erally glabrous. Anticosti to Ontario, Alaska, northern Michigan, Minnesota, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colo- rado. No
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