126 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



16. Rosa Pyrena'ica, or Pyrennean Rose. 

 Tube of calyx, bristled, with stiff glandulous hairs. 

 Flowers, single, solitary, or geminated; of a vivid 



dark red. 



This shrub grows spontaneously in the Alps, the 

 Vosges mountains, and those of Auvergne, &c. 



17. Rosa Pyrena'ica, or Pyrennean Rose of 



Nurserymen. 



Branches, with the exception of the flower-bearers, 



armed with acicular thorns ; straight, red, spotted 



with yellow or grey, and mixed with bristles. 

 Stems, Suckers, and Sprays, glaucous and purple. 

 Leaflets, seven or eleven, oval or oblong, wrinkled or 



nervous ; naked, pale on the under surface, singly 



and unevenly denticulated. 

 Stipules, naked, entire at the base, dilated and toothed 



at the summit. 

 Flowers, appear in May ; single, of a vivid pink, in 



clustering branches. 

 Flowerstalks, short, naked, glaucous. 

 Tube of calyx, globular, glaucous, naked. 

 Fruit, pendant, red, globular, crowned with convergent 



sepals. 



18. Pyrennean Rose, with hairy branches. 



Shrub, bushy. 



Branches, armed with thorns, bristles, and down. 



Leaflets, from seven to eleven, oblong, obtuse, or 

 pointed; sometimes alternate, and irregularly 

 placed; sometimes more numerous on one side 

 than the other ; nerved, reticulated, unarmed. 



Leafstalks, usually red. 



Stipules, smooth, much dilated, undulous, convergent 

 at the summit. 



