110 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



Tube of calyx, cup-shaped, rough at its extremity, like 



the flowerstalk. 

 Sepals, composite, hispid outside, prolonged to a point 



beyond the petals. 

 Receptacle, very large, containing hairy styles. 



This variety is a native of North America. 



1. Single-blossomed Turnip Rose. 

 Shrub, branching. 

 Branches, unarmed at the extremity, bristles at the 



base. 



Leaves, composed of from seven to nine leaflets. 

 Leaflets, pale green, not glossy ; oblong lanceolated, 



smooth, undulated. 

 Footstalks, smooth, red, having occasionally small 



thorns, or red bristles underneath. 

 Stipules, long, smooth, with glandulous teeth. 

 Flowerstalk, very short. 

 Flowers, single, small, of a uniform pale pink ; united 



into clusters of two, three, or more. 

 Sepals, glandulous, simple, or bearing from three to 



five appendages. 

 Fruit, large, flattened. 



2. Rosa Hudsoniana, or Hudson's Rose. 



Shrub, having slenderer branches, without thorns. 

 Leaves, composed of seven leaflets, sometimes five or 



nine. 

 Leaflets, oval, lanceolated ; simply dentated ; rather 



glaucous underneath. 

 Footstalk, red, thorny. 

 Flowerstalk, long, with glandulous hairs ; fragrant as 



in the sepals. 



