380 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



ELEVENTH TRIBE OF SPECIES III. 



Rosa Systyla. 

 Systylated Rose. 



Resembles the Rosa Canina in all but the form of 

 its styles, which are united into a long smooth column. 

 In this tribe we shall comprehend the 

 Rosa jlrvensis. 

 Rosa Jlbyssinica 

 Rosa Sempervirens. 

 Rosa Multiflora. 

 Rosa Brunonii. 

 Rosa Rubifolia, and 

 Rosa Setigera. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, usually high. 



Branches, long, slender, flexible, flagelliform, usually 

 green, sometimes naked. 



Thorns, scattered, or geminated under the stipules ; 

 crooked or curved; very rarely straight; some- 

 times interspersed with bristles. 



Leaves, composed of five or seven leaflets ; rarely of 

 three or five. 



Stipules, adnate, usually narrow, simple or ciliated 

 with glands ; sometimes enlarged at the base, and 

 finely pinnated. 



Leafstalks, armed underneath with a few crooked 

 thorns ; often glandulous, sometimes pubescent. 



Leaflets, oval or oval-lanceolated ; pointed or acumi- 

 nated ; occasionally obtuse ; simply toothed, naked 

 on both sides. 



Flowerstalks, sometimes woolly, sometimes glandulous ; 

 with pedicellated glands. 



Floral leaves, linear-lanceolated, often acuminated or 

 subulated, smooth or woolly ; usually deciduous. 



