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Thorns, slender, red, rather crooked. 



Leaves, usually reverted, very glossy, often durable, 



without pubescence, composed of five or seven 



leaflets. 



Stipules, red, narrow, reverted at the edges. 

 Leafstalks, armed with small crooked thorns. 

 Leaflets, oval or oval-lanceolated ; plane, simply 



toothed, of a light green on the upper surface, 



paler on the under. 



Flowers, fragrant ; white, very numerous. 

 Floral leaves, naked, lanceolated, reflexed, spotted with 



red. 

 Flowerstalks, naked and glandulous ; as well as the 



tube of calyx. 

 Sepals, deciduous, oval-pointed, almost simple, scaly 



and glandulous, shorter than the corolla. 

 Petals, ob-corded, convex. 

 Stamens, one hundred and thirty-eight to one hundred 



and forty ; deciduous. 

 Disk, thick, conical. 

 Ovaries, thirty. 



Styles, united in a long hairy column. 

 Fruit, round, small, of a red-orange. 



This rose is found throughout the South of Europe . 

 France has furnished several sub-varieties. 



ar utteg. 



1. Evergreen Small-leafed Rose. 

 Rosa Sempervirens. 

 Microphylla Sempervirens. 



Leaflets, sub-orbicular. 

 Flowers, white. 



