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Rosa arkansana, Porter (n.sp.) [ed.: note that the printer's abbreviations used for inch and foot are different from those used today. °= foot, '=inch] Stem stout, erect, leafy, 1° high, glabrous and glaucous, armed with weak, deciduous, bristly prickles; leaflets 9-11, ovate and oblong-ovate, 1' or more in length, acute or obtuse, glabrous, sharply serrate; midrib and long stipules somewhat prickly and minutely glandular; flowers numerous, termin, corymbed, on peduncles about 1' long; fruit globose, smooth, flaucous; calyx-segments ovate, reflexed in fruit, with terminal and sometimes lateral appendates, more or less glandular and tomentose pubescent on the margins; petals broadly obcordate or emarginate, longer than the calyx-segments, rose-color; flowers 2' in diameter.--This rose may possibly be an extreme for of R. blanda, but it differs in so many points that I have ventured to describe it as new. - Banks of the Arkansas near Cañon City, Brandegee [T.S. Brandegee of Cañon City]. Raton Mountains, Dr. Bell [Dr. W.A. Bell of Manitou Springs]. Texas, Wright.

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Rosa blanda, Ait.- Common everywhere along streams in the foothills. Dr. Smith [Dr. George Smith]; Meehan. Porter [T.C. Porter]; Brandegee [T.S. Brandegee of Cañon City]; Coulter [Prof. John M. Coulter].

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Rosa fraxinifolia Bork. Resembles R. blanda. Flowers large, 3'' in diameter; fruit larger, 6'' to 8'' in diameter; 2' to 3' high, growing solitary on dry ridges.- In the mountains, Hon. John Scott.