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93. Jacques Noisette. 



Shrub, vigorous. 



Stems, straight, smooth, purple, armed with scattered 

 non-stipular thorns. 



Leaflets, on a long leafstalk ; three to seven, some ob- 

 long, some oval ; of a glossy green ; irregularly 

 toothed. 



Flowers, double, middle-sized, very regular. 



Petals, white*; tinged with pink, rather rumpled in the 

 centre. 



E. FIFTH FAMILY. 



MUSK ROSES. 

 Rosa Moschata. 

 Rosa Opsostemma. 

 Rosa Glandulifera. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, high, straight, very ramiferous. 



Branches, smooth, green, sometimes purple at the sum- 

 mit ; slightly glandulous. 



Thorns, almost even, scattered, strong, crooked. 



Stipules, linear, adherent, divided and subulated at the 

 point, hairy underneath ; fringed with glands. 



Leaflets, five or seven, elliptical, lanceolated, almost 

 plane ; simply and finely toothed ; naked on the 

 upper surface ; glaucous on the under ; the midrib 

 hairy. 



Flowers, very numerous, in clusters of seven or more, 

 appearing in August or September ; scented with 

 musk. 



Flowerstalks, ramified and cottonous. 



Floral leaves, deciduous, concave, reflexed, hairy and 

 glandulous. 



Petals, almost entire ; rather connivent. 



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