BURNET ROSE 



J 37 Styles free ; flowers white or pink. 



319 



Calyx-tube globoid, sepals entire, lanceo- 

 late; flowers small and solitary ; fruit 

 nearly black. 



R. spinosissima, L. Burnet Rose, Scotch Rose. Dwarf 

 shrub, with short erect branches, and crowded, unequal, 

 subulate prickles; leaflets about 9, small and rounded, 

 simply serrate and glabrous. 



Flowers solitary, white, and rather small. Sepals, 

 simple, acuminate, persistent. Styles free. Fruit purple 

 to black with very small disc. 



Fig. 129. Dog Rose, Rosa canina. 1, flowering shoot; 2, flower in 

 vertical section ; 3, the hip, and 4, the true fruit ; 5, the latter in section ; 

 6, floral diagram, p. 320 (Wo). 



