132 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Suckers, smooth. 



Leaflets, from nine to eleven ; rounded, of a firm texture, 



glaucous, the lower pair much smaller than the rest. 

 Flowers, always pale red. 

 Fruit, long, naked before maturity, and covered with 



spots. 

 Ovules, from twenty-five to thirty-five. 



III. Rosa Jlcicularis, or Acicular Rose. 



Shrub, nearly eight feet high. 



Branches, when young, glaucous ; turning brown with 

 time. 



Thorns, straight, very feeble, mixed with bristles. 



Leaves, composed of seven leaflets. 



Lea/lets, thick, opaque, very glaucous; oval, convex, 

 divergent, almost naked; blueish underneath. 



Stipules, narrow, naked, rather enlarged at the extre- 

 mity ; fringed with glands. 



Leafstalks, pale, rather hairy, long. 



Flowers, solitary, pale red. 



Floral leaves, oval, convex, naked. 



Sepals, very narrow, rather divided. 



Petals, oboval, emarginated ; shorter than the sepals ; 

 displayed. 



Disk, large, rather elevated. 



Styles, detached, hairy. 



Fruit, oboval, strangled towards the summit; naked, 

 of a yellowish orange, rather drooping, crowned 

 with sepals, which are connivent and thickened at 

 the base. 



This shrub is a native of Siberia. It is chiefly culti- 

 vated in France for the effect produced in garden land- 

 scape by its numerous lateral flowers, which appear in 

 May. 



