268 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



1 9. White Hose with green buds. 

 Tube of calyx, top-shaped. 



Buds, round ; of a pale green. 

 Flowers, full, middle-sized ; white. 



20. Claudine. 



Tube of calyx, oval, glandulous ; scattered over with 



green bristles. 



Sepals, pinnatifid, glandulous. 

 Flowers, white ; semi-double, in clusters. 



21. Small-leafed White Rose. 

 Shrub, small with slender branches. 

 Thorns, rare, scattered, crooked and slight. 

 Leaflets, five or seven; lanceolated, toothed, smooth 



and rather glaucous. 



Flowers, not numerous, often solitary; very double, 

 almost full ; tinged with red in the bud, but pure 

 white after expansion. 



22. Aimable Felix. 

 Shrub, of a moderate height. 

 Stems, divergent, usually thornless. 

 Branches, the young ones rather elbowed. 

 Leafstalks, slightly hairy. 



Leaflets, three or five ; round, or ob-cordiform, irregu- 

 larly toothed, of a whitish green. 



Flowers, small, double, numerous, well formed; of a pure 

 white ; in clusters of two or three on each branch. 



Petals, of the centre, rather plaited ; those of the cir- 

 cumference wide and lobed. 



Tube of calyx, and Flowerstalks, hispid. 



SECTION II. FLESH-COLOURED FLOWERS. 



23. Diadem of Flora. 



Flowers, very well formed, and very double and large j 

 flesh-coloured. 



