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R. California, Ch. & Schl. in Linnaea, ii. 35 (1827)...The common wild rose of middle and southerly parts of the State; most frequent along the seaboard and on banks of rivers in the interior. On the lower San Joaquin, among trees, we have seen it fifteen feet high, and showing a tendency to climb, the specific characters remaining the same.
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R. spithamaea, Wats. Bot. Calif. ii. 444 (1880). Glabrous and sprarking prickly, low and slender 4-12 in. high sparkngly branches and sparely leafy: stipules narrow, acuminate, glandular-ciliate...; leaflets 3-7, obovate...1/2-1 in. long, serrate: fl. solitary or few in a corymb; calyx-tube globose-oblong, densely glandular-hirsute; lobes broader than in the last [R. sonomensis]...-Very common in pine woods at middle elevations of the Sierra from Yuba Co. southward at least to the Soda Springs west of Donner Lake, but apparently seldom collected; and Mr. Rattan obtained it first on Trinity River [in extreme northern California]. A well marked species, confluent with no other, and of very special habitat.
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R. Sonomensis. Slender, 1 ft. high, with many flexuous very lafy branches well armed with straight prickles: stipules shorts, almost truncate, narrow, the margin closely glandular-ciliolate...leaflets 5,...broadly ovate...1/4-1/2 in. long, margin...coarsely serrate....fl. many, small, in dense terminal corymbs: calyx-tube round-pyriform, glandular-hispid; lobes....without foliaceous tips or appendages, erect in fruit.-At the Petrified Forest in Sonoma Col., collected by the author late in August, 1988, and distrubuted as R. spithamaea, to which it is allied, but from which the characters of leaflet and stipule abundantly distinguish it.
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R. gratissima. Erect, much branched, 4-6 ft. high, well-armed with long straight rather weak prickles of which, on vigorous growing shoots only, two very long ones are infrastipular: foliage thinnish, bright green, glandular, very fragrant, the rachis decidedly prickly beneath and, with the stalklets, stipulates and calyx-lobes very minutely velvety-tomentose: stipules not glandular, those of the flowering branchlets entire, of the growing shoots deeply and closely serrate-incied: leaflets 5-7, ovate, acute, 11/2-3/4 in. long, regularly simply or rather deeply serrate, the teeth somewhat falcate: fl. 3 or more in a corymb, 1-1 1/2 in. broad: calyx-tube globose; lobes with foliaceous tips.-Borders of wet meadows and about springy places in the mountains of Kern Co., A shrub with the habit ofR. Californica, but strikingly unlike any forms of that species in that the almost glabrous thin foliage is of a bright sweetbriar green, with much of the glandular indument and fragrance of that species. June, July.
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