Rosa arkansana var. suffulta (Greene) Cockerell

Rosa alcea Greene, Leaflets 2: 63. 1910
Stem low, 1-3 dm. high, terete, densely bristly, even the floral branches; stipules adnate, 1-1.5 cm. long, puberulent, and glandular-hispid and even bristly on the back, glandularciliate on the margins, rather broad, the free portion ovate, acute; rachis and petiole puberulent and glandular; leaflets 7-9, elliptic-obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, 1-1.5 cm. (rarely 1.5-2 cm.) long, serrate, glabrous above, finely and densely pubescent and strongly veined beneath; flowers solitary or few together; bracts densely glandular, pedicels glabrous or sparsely glandular, 1-2 cm. long; hypanthium globose, usually glandular-bristly; sepals lanceolate, 15 mm. long, caudate-attenuate, glandular-hispid on the back; petals obcordate, 15 mm. long; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted both in the bottom and on the sides of the hypanthium.
Type locality: Moose Jaw, Assiniboia [now Saskatchewan]. Distribution: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and North Dakota.

Rosa conjuncta Rydberg, sp. nov
Stem erect, simple, about 5 dm. high, glabrous, densely bristly; stipules adnate, about 2 cm. long, finely and densely pubescent, entire or denticulate, the free portion ovate, acute; rachis and petiole densely puberulent; leaflets mostly 9, oblanceolate or elliptical, acute, sharply serrate, short-petioluled, 2-5 cm. long, glabrous and glaucous above, densely puberulent beneath; flowers corymbose at the end of the stem; pedicels 1-3 cm. long, glabrous; hypanthium subglobose, acute at the base, glabrous, about 15 mm. thick in fruit; sepals lanceolate, caudateacuminate, about 2 cm. long, usually some of them with linear lobes, glandular-hispid on the back, in fruit persistent but reflexed; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted, both in the bottom and on the sides of the hypanthium.
Type collected in Atchison County, Missouri, August 23, 1893, Bush 101 (herb. Columbia Univ.).
Distribution: Missouri.

Rosa suffulta Greene, Pittonia 4 : 12. 1899
Rosa slricta /3 Borrer; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 200. 1832.
Rosa blanda seligera Crepin, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15: 33, in part. 1876.
Rosa arkansana S. Wats. Proc Am. Acad. 20: 341. 1885. Not R. arkansana Porter. 1874.
Rosa blanda arkansana Best, Bull. Torrey CUib 17: 145, in part. 1890.
Rosa vi/giniana arkansana MacM. Metasp. Minn. Vallev 304. 1892.
Rosa pralincola Greene, Pittonia 4: 13. 1899. Not R. pralincola A. Br. 1888.
Rosa arkansana suffulta Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 88. 1900.
Rosa pralincola f. alba Rehder, Mitt. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 19. 252. 1910.
Rosa heliophila Greene, Leaflets 2: 132. 1911.
Rosa pralincola angustiarum Cockerell; Daniels, Univ. Missouri Stud. Sci. 2 2 : 148. 1911.
Rosa pralincola setulosa Cockerell; Daniels, Univ. Missouri Stud. Sci. 2 2 : 148. 1911.
Rosa heliophila folios issima Lunell, Am. Midi. Nat. 2: 157. 1912.
Rosa dulcissima Lunell, Am. Midi. Nat. 2: 287. 1912. Rosa arkansanoides C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 2: 971. 1912. Rosa gratiosa dulcissima Lunell, Am. Midi. Nat. 3: 137. 1913. Rosa angustiarum Cockerell, Torreya 18: 180. 1918.
Stem erect, 3-5 dm. high, rarely higher, from a rootstock or short caudex, usually simple, dying back to near the ground, densely bristly, green; stipules adnate, usually dilated, 1.5-2 cm. long, densely and finely pubescent, rarely somewhat glandular on the back, but glandulardentate on the margins; leaflets usually 9 or 11, obovate, acute at the base, usually obtuse or rounded at the apex, 1.5-4 cm. long, light-green, finely and rather densely pubescent on both sides or in age glabrate above, densely serrate; rachis and petioles finely pubescent, rarely glandular or bristly; flowers corymbose at the end of the stem; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, glabrous; hypanthium globose, glabrous or rarely bristly, in fruit about 1 cm. broad; sepals lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, usually entire, 1-1.5 cm. long, tomentose within and on the margin, somewhat glandular on the back, after anthesis ascending and usually persistent or tardily deciduous; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted in the bottom and on the lower sides of the hypanthium.
Type locality: Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Distribution: Illinois to western Texas, New Mexico, Alberta, and Manitoba; also collected in the District of Columbia.