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4. Rosa Flava Plena Flare, or Full Yellow 



Rose. 



Rosa Lutea Multiplex. 

 Rosa Hemisphcerica. 

 Rosa Glaucophylla. 

 Rosa Sulphurea. 

 Rosa Lutea. 



Shrub, eight or nine feet high, branches of a yellow- 

 ish brown, more or less armed with pale, scattered, 

 unequal thorns. 



Leaves, of a glaucous green, composed of from five to 

 nine leaflets, of an elliptic form, oblong or ovoi'd, 

 obtuse, with sharp teeth, deep, and usually simple. 



Stipules, narrow, flat, dilated, forked, and notched at 

 the summit, without pubescence. 



Petioles, somewhat glandulous. 



Flowers, large, very full, globular, and regular, of a 

 fine pure yellow 



Peduncle, > either naked Qr glandulous 



Calyx, 5 



This is one of the most beautiful roses ; but it is 

 very uncertain in the flowering, more particularly if 

 the shrub be submitted to the pruning knife. It is con- 

 sidered that the flowers expand more freely in moist 

 or marshy soils. It is rarely known to flower within 

 four or five miles of London. 



5. Rosa Sulphurea Minor, or Small Yellow Rose. 



Shrub, dwarfed. 



Branches, slight, covered to the tips with bristly hairs. 



Thorns, wanting. 



Leaves, very close together, with small leaflets. 



