98 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Fruit, naked, globular, of a red-orange ; crowned with 



sepals. 



This rose is indigenous in the northern countries of 

 Europe ; Lapland, Sweden, Denmark, &c. It has been 

 confounded by botanists with the cinnamomea. In 

 gardens, it is rarely cultivated. 



Rosa Majalis Canescens. 



Differs only in the colour of its leaves, which are of 

 a whitish blue. 



III. Rosa Fraximfolia, or Ash-leafed Rose. 

 Rosa Virgimana. 

 Rosa Blanda. 

 Rosa Corymbosa. 

 Rosa jUpina. 



Shrub, thick, high, having the appearance of the Cin- 

 namon rose. 

 branches, straight, thornless, of a deep purple, covered 



with a glaucous powder ; greyish at the base. 

 Suckers, armed at their base with stiff bristles. 

 Leafstalks, smooth. 

 Leaves, smooth, opaque. 

 Stipules, long, smooth, glaucous beneath, much toothed 



towards the extremity, which is flat and dilated. 

 Lea/lets, from seven to five, lanceolated, simply toothed, 

 of a greyish green on the upper surface, and glau- 

 cous and nerved on the under. 

 Flowers, small, red, in clusters of two or three. 

 Flowerstalk, shorter than the leaves. 

 Floral leaves, large, elliptic, naked or fringed. 

 Tube of calyx, globular, naked, sometimes coloured. 

 Sepals, oval, narrow, entire, ending in a long point, 

 hispid underneath. 



