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Flowerstalk, bearing equal bristles. 



Tube of calyx, almost spherical, bristly. 



Sepals, shorter than the petals, without down or 



bristles. 



Stamens, from a hundred to a hundred and thirty. 

 Disk, flat and thick. 

 Ovules, from thirty to thirty-five. 

 Styles, enclosed, hairy, and detached. 

 Fruit, globular, rather hispid, of a brilliant scarlet. 



This variety is cultivated in some collections under 

 the name of the Dwarf Rose of Labrador. It is a native 

 of Newfoundland;- and was first brought to England 

 in 1773. 



IX. Rosa Rapa^ or Turnip Rose. 

 Rosa Turgida. 

 Rosa Fraxinifolia. 



Shrub, vigorous, without bristles, provided with a few 



straight, pale, hairy thorns. 

 Sitckers, very red, armed with scattered thorns, of which 



the largest are curved, and mixed with red bristles. 

 Leaves, far apart, tinted with red, which becomes 



deeper in autumn. 

 Leaflets, from three to nine, simply or doubly dentated ; 



smooth, undulous. 

 Stipules, flat, naked, undulous, finely toothed, narrow 



or dilated. 

 Leafstalks, short, straight, bearing few thorns, and few 



glands. 

 Flowers, double, numerous, pale red, in clusters of two, 



three, or more. 

 Floral leaves, oval-lanceolated, acuminous, open, long, 



finely dentated. 

 Flowerstalk, bristly, glandulous, rough. 



