256 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



15. Assemblage de Beaute. 

 Flowers, middle-sized ; of a brilliant crimson. 



Obtained at Angers, in 1823. 



16. Queen of the Netherlands. 



Flowers, beautiful, numerous, middle-sized ; of a velvet 

 crimson. 



Obtained at Brussels, 1824. 



N. B. The Rosa Gallica of Lindley differs so little 

 from the variety Provinciates of the Hundred-leaved 

 rose, that we have classed them together. 



EIGHTH TRIBE OF SPECIES III. 

 Rosa Villosa. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, from three to eight feet high ; sometimes lofty 



and arborescent ; offsets straight. 

 Branches, glaucous or light green ; rarely red, alway 



armed. 

 Thorns, straight or almost straight ; usually scattered, 



very rarely in pairs. 

 Stipules, usually narrow; toothed or sometimes bi- 



forked; fringed with glands, or hairy at the 



edges. 



Leafstalks, often glandulous, or hairy ; always thorny. 

 Leaves, composed of five or seven leaflets. 

 Leaflets, hairy underneath, at least on the nerves; 



sometimes on both surfaces ; oval or oblong, with 



divergent teeth. 



Flowers, occasionally solitary or in pairs ; more fre- 

 quently in multifloral clusters. 

 Floral leaves, none, when the flowers are solitary ; 



otherwise, oval or lanceolated. 



