350 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



12. Faustina. 

 Branches, corymbiferous. 



Flowers, large, full, successive, regular ; white, tinged 

 with flesh-colour. 



13. Jeanne d" Albret. 



Flowers, middle-sized, double, globular, successive ; 

 lilac-pink. 



14. Bourbon Pompon Rose. 

 Pompon of Tf^asennes. 



Shrub, low, about the size of a common Pompon rose. 

 Branches, slender, spreading. 

 Thorns, numerous, near together, even, crooked. 

 Bark, glossy and shining, greenish. 

 Leaves, of a bright green. 



Flowers, small, globular, very full, successive, fragrant ; 

 of a pale pink. 



D. FOURTH FAMILY. 



NOISETTE ROSES. 



Rosa Noisettiana. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, vigorous, high ; with smooth, rather flexible 



branches. 

 Thorns, strong, crooked, sometimes straight, scattered ; 



interspersed with glandulous hairs. 

 Leaflets, five or seven, occasionally nine ; smooth, oval 



or lanceolated ; glossy on the upper surface, pale 



and glaucous underneath ; sharply and deeply 



toothed, the teeth convergent. 

 Leafstalks, glandulous, armed underneath with crooked 



thorns. 

 Stipules, narrow, subulated, pectinated, or ciliated with 



glands. 



