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Leaves, smooth, growing at the extremity of the twigs, 

 composed of five or seven leaflets. 



Leaflets, elliptic or orbicular, doubly toothed; rusty 

 and glandulous beneath. 



Stipules, narrow and glandulous at the base. 



Leafstalks, glandulous and bristly ; armed with a few 

 straight thorns, small and scattered. 



Flowers, vfcry small, white, solitary, cup-shaped, fur- 

 nished with floral leaves. 



Flowerstalks, glandulous and bristly. 



Tube of calyx, globular, covered with bristles and 

 glands, except at the upper part. 



Sepals, reflexed after flowering; before maturity longer 

 than the fruit. 



Disk, rather elevated. 



Styles, and Stigmates, hairy. 

 This little rose-tree is found in the south of France, 



and in the environs of Lyons. 



VI. Rose roiih curled Petals. 

 Rosa Involuta. 



Shrub, from two to five feet high, bushy, of a reddish 

 grey. 



Branches, straight, not ramified, covered with glands 

 and thorns, uneven, strong, straight. 



Leaves, close together, when rubbed smelling of tur- 

 pentine. 



Leaflets, five or seven, concave, oval, obtuse, or pointed; 

 doubly toothed, naked, and almost opaque on the 

 upper surface; on the under hairy, and having 

 scarcely perceptible glands. 



Stipules, narrow, often concave, pointed, not toothed, 

 but fringed with glands. 



Leafstalks, hairy, glandulous, bristly, with a few bristly 

 thorns. 



