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FLowerstalks, usually short, always hispid ; sometimes 

 bearing a few small thorns. 



Tube of calyx, oval or ob-round, usually hispid ; some- 

 times smooth. 



Sepals, connivent, usually permanent, often long and 

 narrow. 



Petals, heart-shaped, often concave. 



Disk, usually thick and flat, forming the throat of the 

 calyx. 



Styles, hairy, detached. 



Fruit, long or oblong ; of a purple more or less orange 

 or scarlet ; often crowned by connivent sepals. 



This species is to be found in the four quarters of 

 the globe. 



SYNONYMS. 



Rosa villosa. Rosa spinulifolia. 

 pomifera . alba, 



gracilis. Evratina. 



tomentosa. hibernica. 



I. Rosa Villosa, or Hairy Rose. 

 Rosa Pomifera. 

 Rosa Gracilis. 



Shrub, the largest of the tribe ; having sometimes an 

 arborescent stem, thick as a man's arm. 



Branches, very glaucous ; very rarely tinged with red ; 

 armed with a few strong thorns scattered or grow- 

 ing under the stipules ; some straight, some scythe- 

 shaped, very slightly interspersed with bristles. 



Leaves, composed of five or seven leaflets; usually 

 large, grey, covered with a dense down. 



Stipules, narrow, pointed, glaucous ; finely toothed and 

 fringed with glands. 



