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Tube of calyx, smooth, oval, narrow in the throat. 

 Sepals, smooth and entire. 

 Flowers, small, semi-double ; white. 



15. Yellow-centred WTiite. 



WJiite Rose with variegated leaves and 



flowers. 

 Shrub, delicate, with slender branches and crooked 



thorns. 



Leaflets, glaucous, small, veined with yellow. 

 Tube of calyx, oval. 



Flowers, double, small ; white, the base of the petals 

 yellow at their first expansion. 



16. Foliaceous White Rose. 



Branches, almost unarmed. 



Leaflets, deeply and sharply toothed. 



Sepals, longer than the petals. 



Flowers, semi-double, small or middle-sized ; white. 



17. Alba Victoria. 

 Antoinette. 



Thorns, long and crooked. 



Leaflets, ob-oval, concave, of a dark green ; pubescent 



underneath. 

 Flowerstalks, glandulous above the floral leaves; 



smooth below. 

 Flowers, very double, small, regular, hemispherical ; 



white. 



18. Cecile Loisiel. 



Shrub, having a light green foliage. 

 Leaflets, orbicular, concave. 

 Tube of calyx, smooth. 

 Sepals, composite, rather glandulous. 

 Flowers, full, small ; white, when fully expanded. 



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