116 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



This rose usually attempts a second flowering in 

 August and September, which rarely succeeds. The 

 flowers are at no time to be depended upon. 



XI. Rosa Laxa, (of Lindley,) or the Lindley 



Rose. 



Rosa Carolina. 



Rosa Carolina Pimpinellifolia. 

 Shrub, branching. 



Branches, cylindrical, shining, and of a reddish brown. 

 Thorns, almost straight, wanting on the branches. 

 Suckers, armed with feeble thorns, mixed with bristles 



at the base. 

 Leaves, growing near together, not glossy, composed 



of seven or nine leaflets. 

 Lea/lets, elliptic, lanceolated, undulated, glaucous, 



naked ; with nerves slightly salient. 

 Stipules, narrow ; dilated and glandulous at the summit. 

 Leafstalks, of a reddish green; armed with slight 



thorns, mingled with bristles and glands. 

 Flowers, pink, single, usually geminated ; blowing at 



the beginning of summer. 

 Petals, flat. 



Floral leaves, double, naked, fringed. 

 Flowerstalk, glandulous. 

 Tube of calyx, globulous, rather hairy. 

 Sepals, shorter than the petals, lanceolated, triangular, 



hairy, glandulous; bristly at the base, slightly 



toothed. 



Disk, obliterated. 

 Fruit, unknown. 



This rose is said by English gardeners to be a native 

 of Carolina ; the French believe it to be only a sub- 

 variety of the Rosa lucida, as plants destitute of fruit 

 are never found in a natural state. 



