298 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



15. Petite Mignonne. 

 Petite Duchesse. 

 Eglanteria Pumila. 



Branches, slight, armed with uneven thorns, inter- 

 spersed with bristles. 



Leafstalks, glandulous, woolly, very thorny. 



Leaflets, three or five j woolly underneath, often glan- 

 dulous on the mid-rib. 



Tube of calyx, turbinated. 



Flowers, very small, full ; of a pale pink. 



II. Glaucous Rose. 

 Red-leafed Rose. 

 Rosa Rubrifolia. 

 Rosa Multiflora. 

 Rosa Rubricauda. 

 Rosa Glaucescens. 

 Rosa Lucida. 

 Rosa Cinnamomea. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, high, with purple or deep-red stem, covered 



with glaucous powder. 

 Thorns, even, small, short, scattered, pale, and crooked : 



not larger on the sucker. 

 Leaves, tinged with red, very glaucous; wrinkled, 



opaque ; composed of seven, and occasionally nine 



leaflets. 



Leaflets, oblong-lane eolated ; simply toothed. 

 Flowerstalks, smooth. 

 Flowers, small, single ; deep red. 

 Disk, very thick. 

 Fruit, oblong, very pulpy. 



This rose is found in the woods of France. Austria. 

 Switzerland, and Savoy. 



