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2. Rosa Majalis. 

 May Rose. 

 Spring Rose. 

 Rose du Saint Sacrement. 



Branches, diffuse, slender, purple or glaucous. 

 Leafstalks, hairy, glandulous, with or without thorns. 

 Leaves, sometimes nine leaflets, very fibrous. 

 Flowers, small, very double, fragrant, of a lilac-pink, 

 appearing in May. 



This sub-variety is a favourite in all gardens. 



II. Rosa Majalis. 

 Rosa Mutica. 



Rosa Majalis Spinosissima. 

 Rosa Collincola. 



Shrub, from three to four feet high; very glaucous. 



Branches, straight, rod-shaped. 



TJwrns, feeble, straight, scattered, sub-stipular. 



Suckers, bristly and thorny. 



Stipules, straight, marginated. 



Leafstalks, rather cottonous, armed with weak thorns, 



small and straight. 

 Leaflets, usually seven; obtuse or oval; flat, simply 



toothed, naked, glaucous on both sides, and rather 



cottonous underneath. 



Flowers, pale red, small, solitary, cup-shaped. 

 Floral leaves, oval or pointed, concave, naked. 

 Calyx, cottonous, with a small round tube. 

 Ftowerstalk, cottonous. 

 Sepals, longer than the petals, pointed, almost simple, 



marginated. 

 Disk, unapparent. 

 Styles, detached. 



