370 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Sepals, reflexed, long, sometimes cottonous, falling 

 soon after the petals. 



Stamens, eighty or eighty-five ; very perishable. 



Disk, thick, high. 



Styles, hairy, detached, or united in a long slender 

 column. 



Fruit, small and red. 



Origin, the north of Africa and south of Spain ; Ma- 

 deira and the south of France. 



1. Single Musk Rose. 

 Rosa Moschata. 



Shrub, vigorous. 



Thorns, firm, crooked, not numerous. 



Leafstalks, armed with a few thorns and glandulous 



bristles. 

 Leaflets, five or nine ; oval, pointed, smooth, serrated, 



dark green. 



Flowerstalks, having glandulous short bristles. 

 Tube of calyx, rather hairy, oval, oblong. 

 Flowers, single, white, in clusters ; highly fragrant. 



This rose grows spontaneously in the neighbour- 

 hood of Roussillon. 



2. Semi-double Musk Rose. 

 Leaflets, five, seven, sometimes nine. 



Flowers, white, small, semi-double; very fragrant, and 

 the inner petals small and fixed by a yellow line. 

 Styles, detached, or slightly conjoined by the hairs. 



3. Double Musk Rose. 

 Full Musk Rose. 



Shrub, low and diffuse. 



