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long, pendulous hips of a curious bottle shape, being- of large size and highly 

 coloured. Whilst the form described above may be regarded as the type, 

 the species as a whole is variable. One of the most distinct forms is 



Var. PYRENAICA (R. pyrenaica, Gouan\ Bot. Mag., t. 6724. This has 

 more or less glaucous branches, and is especially distinguished by glandular 

 bristles on the flower-stalk and calyx-tube. These glands often persist on 

 the fruit and give off, when rubbed, a distinct turpentine-like odour. 



R. ANEMONEFLORA, Fortune. 



A bush with spreading branches armed with scattered slender prickles 

 and three- or five-foliolate leaves the latter on the young barren shoots of 

 the first year. Leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, \\ to 3 ins. long, very finely 

 and simply toothed, smooth on both surfaces, dark green above, pale below. 

 Flowers blush-white, i to \\ ins. across, in loose corymbs, double ; the inner 

 petals narrow and ragged ; stalks slender, naked, or with a few glandular 

 bristles. This rose was introduced from China in 1846, by Fortune, who 

 found it in a garden at Shanghai. It has not been found wild, and is now 

 believed to be a hybrid between laevigata and multiflora. It is a curious and 

 rather pretty rose, but not very hardy. 



R. ARKANSANA, Porter. ARKANSAS ROSE. 



(R. blanda var. arkansana. Best.) 



A small bush, under 3 ft. high, whose steins are densely covered with fine 

 straight prickles. Leaflets five to eleven, oval or obovate, tapering at the 

 base, | to i in. long, simply and sharply toothed, smooth or very slightly 

 downy. Flowers in clusters or solitary, i^- ins. wide, pink ; sepals smooth or 

 slightly downy, with long narrow points. Fruit ^ in. in diameter, smooth, 

 globose, red, crowned with the spreading sepals. 



Native of the central United States. It has been placed as a variety of 

 R. blanda, but its weaker habit, its densely prickly stems, and spreading (not 

 erect) sepals on the fruit distinguish it. 



R. ARVENSIS, Hudson. AYRSHIRE ROSE. 



A deciduous trailing or climbing shrub, with long slender branches no 

 thicker than stout string, and armed with scattered, hooked prickles in. long. 

 Leaflets three, five, or seven, ovate, oval or obovate, f to 2 ins. long, simply 

 toothed, smooth and shining green above, a little paler or glaucous below. 

 Flowers white, with little or no fragrance, i^ to 2 ins. across, one to several in 

 a cluster ; stalks glandular ; calyx-tube smooth, sepals entire, glandular out- 

 side, downy within, | in. long. Fruit dark red, round or oval. 



This rose, the type of the Ayrshire group of roses in gardens, is widely 

 spread over Europe, and is abundant in hedgerows, etc., in England and 

 Ireland, but (in spite of its name) much scarcer in Scotland. It is very easily 

 distinguished among British roses by its thin shoots, which often grow 

 several yards long in a season, and by the styles being united in a column. 

 (The only other British species with joined styles is R. STYLOSA, Desvois a 

 sturdy bush with the dog-rose habit.) The name " Ayrshire rose " appears to 

 have arisen from a plant growing at Loudon Castle, in the county of Ayr, and 

 now known as 



Var. CAPREOLATA, Bot. Mag., t. 2054 (R. capreolata, Neilt). This differs 

 from ordinary R. arvensis in having the leaves quite green on both sides and 

 retaining them on the branches longer. 



