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Flowerstalks, very short. 

 Fruit, almost round, smooth. 



10. Small-leafed Rubiginous Rose. 



Rosa Rubiginosa Parvifolia. 

 Shrub, dwarfed. 

 Branches, rather bristly. 

 Leaves, small and rounded. 

 This sub-variety is found in the mountains of Taurida. 



11. Rubiginous Rose with glossy wood. 

 Rosa Rubiginosa Lcevigata. 



Shrub, vigorous. 



Branches, divergent. 



Thorns, not numerous, purplish, uneven, scattered. 



Bark, glossy. 



Leaves, flat. 



Leafstalks, rather thorny and glandulous. 



Leaflets, five or seven, some spatulated, others rounded ; 

 glandulous underneath ; of a dark green on the 

 upper surface ; the toothing sharp and glandulous. 



Flowers, large, semi-double ; of a fine cherry-red. 



Petals, rather curled in the centre. 



12. Thorny Rubiginous Rose. 

 Rosa Rubiginosa *4culeata. 



Shrub, very vigorous. 



Branches, divergent. 



Thorns, uneven, compressed at the base ; almost straight, 



scattered, intermingled with glandulous hairs. 

 Leafstalks, glandulous, thorny. 

 Leaves, composed of seven leaflets. 

 Leaflets, some oval, some almost round, of a dark green 



on the upper surface ; whitish and glandulous on 



the under ; teeth strong and hairy. 

 Flowers, numerous, double, large ; of a fine pink shaded 



with violet. 

 Calyx, and Peduncles, rather viscous. 



