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red, pointed, waved, edged with glands, and bent backwards ; the pe- 

 duncles are long, fine, and covered with glandiferous setae ; the ger- 

 men (tube of the calyx) is elliptic, contracted at the top, and covered 

 with setae, but not so much so as the peduncle ; the sepals (leaves 

 of the calyx) have a few fine pinnae, are covered with glands, have a 

 point at the end extending beyond the bud before it expands, and 

 when the flower opens, they are reflexed ; the bud is cream-coloured, 

 tbe petals are large, obcordate, expanding flat, and their edges are 

 somewhat lapped over each other ; the stamina are numerous, and 

 bright yellow ; the stigmata are united, porrect, and hairy. The 

 scent of the flower is very pleasant. The fruit when ripe preserves 

 nearly its original shape, is elongated, and not much increased in 

 size. 



The characters of the common Rosa arvensis, which do not agree 

 with the preceding, are these : the plant, wherever situated, is not 

 inclined to grow to the same extent; the branches are stronger, 

 thicker, and more able to support themselves ; the younger shoots 

 have more the appearance of surculi (which often arise from the 

 root), they are glaucous, on the exposed side of more blueish green, 

 and on the exposed side purple and deeper coloured ; they bear fewer 

 leaves, and the bush is consequently not so thick and close. The 

 foliola are most frequently seven, and, under similar circumstances, 

 smaller; they are usually broader in proportion to their length, 

 somewhat folded, not flat, more rugose on both sides, an opaque green 

 above, pale, glaucous, and without any appearance of shining be- 

 neath, with serratures less sharp, and the mid-rib occasionally hairy 

 on the under side. The flowers appear at the end of June, and often 

 grow singly ; the peduncles are thicker and stronger ; the germen is 

 shorter and thicker, less contracted at the top, and usually smooth ; 

 the sepals are either without pinnae or with only very slight ones, 

 they frequently have no terminated point, and when the flowers open, 

 are not reflexed ; the flower at its first opening is cupped, and not 

 flatly expanded; the stigmata are quite smooth, not hairy. The 

 fruit, when ripe, is considerably swollen, and generally nearly glo- 

 bose, but its shape varies in different plants. 



The differences between the Evergreen and the Ayrshire Rose are 

 also capable of being distinctly described. The Evergreen Rose is 

 by no means a free grower, and though it extends, when trained 

 against a wall, to some distance, it does not do so, rapidly ; its shoots 

 are equally slender, but not so weak, and they are rather more pur- 

 ple ; it forms, however, with its branches and leaves, a very thick 

 bush. The leaves are evergreen, and though similar in shape, are 



