154 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Leaflets, smooth on the upper surface, pubescent or 

 hairy on the under; simply toothed, the teeth 

 usually hairy, sometimes glandulous. 



Flower stalks, hispid, glandulous. 



Flowers, in multifloral and open clusters, longer than 

 the leaves, fragrant. 



Sepals, hairy or glandulous, shorter than the petals, 

 reflexed. 



Tube of calyx, occasionally hispid, smooth or glan- 

 dulous, short, turbinated, or ob-conical, always 

 displayed at the summit, and without perceptible 

 tightening. 

 This rose, which is said to. have been brought from 



Syria in 1175, is probably the same of which Virgil 



speaks in his Georgics as biferi rosaria Poesti. It has 



furnished a great number of sub-varieties. 



SECTION I. WHITE FLOWERS. 



1. White Rose of Italy. 



Shrub, armed with a few thorns ; thin, scattered, mixed 



with glandulous bristles. 

 Leaves, rather pale. 

 Buds, flesh-coloured. 

 Flowers, semi-double, middle-sized; of a beautiful white. 



fragrant. 



2. Pride of Lille. 

 Triomphe de Lille. 



Shrub, armed like the preceding. 



Leafstalks, pointed upwards. 



Leaflets, with very deeply-toothed edges. 



Tube of calyx, ob-conical; very glandulous. 



Flowers, full, middle-sized, white with a pink centre. 



