384 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



6. Systyle Rose with lanceolated Leaves. 

 Rosa Systyla Lanceolata. 



Leaflets, oval-lanceolated, long, glossy, rugose. 

 Fruit, spherical. 

 Found in Ireland. 



7. Ayrshire Rose. 

 Rosa Capreolata. 



Shrub, having long, slender, thorny branches. 

 Flowers, numerous ; white, single, cup-shaped. 



Raised at Loudon Castle, in Ayrshire, from seeds 

 imported from North America; but supposed by Lindley 

 to have been originally carried to America from Europe. 



8. Full Field Rose. 



Rosa Arvensis Rosea Plena. 



Shrub, sarmentous. 

 Thorns, not numerous. 



Leaves, composed of five light-green leaflets. 

 Flowers, very double, middle-sized ; red, united three 

 together. 



II. Evergreen Rose. 

 Rosa Sempermrens . 

 Rosa Scandens. 

 Rosa Balearica. 

 Rosa Atrovirens. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Shrub, creeping. 



Branches, very long, light green, feeble, much rami- 

 fied, reddish on one side. 



