264 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Branches, divergent, glaucous or light green ; some- 

 times red on one side. 



Thorns, straight or a little curved, scattered, weak, 

 uneven. 



Leaves, glaucous, composed of five or seven leaflets, of 

 a dull green. 



Stipules, narrow, flat, elongated at the extremity ; 

 almost naked, toothed, fringed with glands. 



Leafstalks, cottonous ; thorny, and glandulous. 



Leaflets, large, wrinkled; oval or round, obtuse or 

 acuminated ; naked on the upper surface, cottonous 

 and very pale underneath ; simply toothed, with 

 slender toothing. 



Flowers, large, numerous ; white or flesh-colour ; often 

 fragrant. 



Floral leaves, cottonous, straight, concave, lanceolated. 



Flowerstalks, bearing weak unequal bristles. 



Tube of calyx, oblong, bristly at the base, or naked. 



Sepals, long, pinnated, hispid on the exterior, reverted 

 and deciduous. 



Petals, concave, emarginated. 



Disk, thick and flat. 



Styles, detached, woolly. 



Fruit, oblong, scarlet or blood-red. 



SECTION I. WHITE FLOWERS. 



1. Single White Rose. 

 Shrub, lofty. 

 Leafstalks, hairy, armed underneath with crooked 



thorns. 



Stipules, adnate in half their length. 

 Tube of calyx, oval-fusiform. 

 Flowers, white, single, fragrant, two or three inches 



wide. 



