138 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Flowers, very large, semi-double, salver-shaped. 

 Fruit, brown, globular, hispid. 



17. Hardy Bur net-lea fed. 



Shrub, pretty vigorous. 



Stems, two feet high, with numerous straight, long, un- 

 even thorns, which are pink on the young shoots. 



Leaves, composed of seven or nine leaflets. 



Lea/lets, very small, oval, pale green, doubly toothed. 



Flowers, double, solitary, snowy white. 



Petals, heart-shaped, marked down the centre with a 

 deep pink stripe ; rather undulated, and sloped. 



18. Burnet-leafed Unique. 



Flowers, white, usually very well formed ; having the 

 buds of the common rose unique. 



SECTION III. WHITE FLOWERS, MORE OR LESS VARIED 

 WITH FLESH-COLOUR. 



19. Irene. 

 Thorns, uneven. 

 Peduncles, hispid, long. 



Tube of calyx, wide at the base and summit, tightened 



in the middle. 



Sepals, simple, with a few scattered glandulous thorns. 

 Flowers, very large, rather drooping, flesh-coloured, 



becoming white. 



Fruit, globular or depressed, red or pale brown. 

 Sepals, spread on the fruit. 



20. Bur net -lea fed, marbled. 

 Belle Laure. 



Shrub, low and spreading. 



Tube of calyx, Sepals, and Flowerstalk, smooth. 

 Flowers, very large, half-double, marbled with lilac- 

 pink on a white ground. 



