382 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



Branches, long, slender, flexible, almost glaucous. 



Thorns, even, scattered, curved or straight ; those of 

 the old branches whitish; those of the young 

 ones red ; wanting altogether where the plant is 

 puny. 



Leaves, distant ; dark or yellowish green, composed of 

 five or seven leaflets. 



Stipules, narrow, plane, naked, fringed with glands, 

 red in the centre. 



Leaflets, flat, oval, sometimes undulated, simply 

 toothed ; very glaucous underneath ; rather hairy 

 on the midrib. 



Flowers, solitary on the branches ; numerous on the 

 offsets ; white, yellowish at the base, slightly fra- 

 grant ; first cup-shaped, afterwards spreading. 



Flowerstalks, scaly, having glands and a few bris- 

 tles. 



Tube of calyx, naked, oval. 



Sepals, short, concave, oval, rather divided, in which 

 case glandulous and scaly. 



Petals, oval, oblong, emarginated. 



Stamens, permanent. 



Disk, fleshy, high. 



Ovaries, from fifteen to twenty-five. 



Styles, united in a smooth column. 



Fruit, round or oblong ; scarlet. 



Found in the hedges and thickets throughout Eng- 

 land and France. 



1 . Mountain Rose. 



Rosa Arvensis Montana. 



Shrub, smaller than the preceding. 

 Fruit, rather hispid. 



