258 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Leafstalks, glandulous, bearing small crooked thorns. 



Leaflets, very unequal, elliptic, plane, rugged, doubly 

 toothed with divergent teeth; exhaling when 

 rubbed a smell of turpentine. 



Flowers, disposed in pairs ; white or deep red. 



Floral leaves, glaucous, oval, wrinkled, concave. 



Flowerstalks, very short, having as well as the calyx 

 stiff bristles, and viscous fragrant glands. 



Tube of calyx, oval, glaucous, hispid, glandulous. 



Sepals, narrow, composite, displayed. 



Petals, rather notched, almost heart-shaped; longer 

 than broad. * 



Disk, not thick, elevated. 



Styles, detached, hairy ; often shorter than the ripe 

 fruit. 



Fruit, dark orange or purple ; very large, round, his- 

 pid ; crowned by connivent sepals. 



This rose is found in the wooded mountains of 

 Taurida, in Germany, in England, and on many of 

 the woody hill-sides of France. It has furnished seve- 

 ral pretty sub-varieties. 



1. Single Rosa Villosa. 

 Stipules, short, glandulous underneath. 

 Flowerstalks, smooth below the bracteal leaves. 

 Flowers, single, small; pale pink. 



2. Subalba. 



Shrub, vigorous, having erect stems, armed with nu- 

 merous, uneven, cylindrical thorns ; interspersed 

 with bristles, terminated by a gland. 



Leaflets, seven in number ; oval ; white and cottonous 

 underneath, slightly toothed. 



