574 
348. Rosa. 58. ROSACE^E. 
Pl. ex. cal . 
25. Rosa systyla. Sisterhood rose . 
Styles united; germen oblong; thorns hooked, nearly 
equal ; root-shoot-thorns crowded ; leaflets serrate. 
Rosa collina, Engl. Bot. 1895. 
Rosa lencochroa, Desvaux Journ. Bot. 2, 113. 
Rosa stylosa, Lamarck Ff. Tr. 6, 536. 
Rosa brevistyla, Lamarck FI. Tr. 6, 53T. 
Rosa systyla, Bastard FI. Anjou. 
Bushy places; shrubby; July. 
Shrub slender, 12 feet high; root-shoots nearly upright; 
leaflets lanceolate, elliptic, upper pair and odd leaflet largest, 
keeled, pointed ; bald above, ribs beneath hairy ; flowers 
1 to 8, saucershape, petals a beautiful pink, inclining to 
orange at the base, sometimes pale or even white; styles 
forming a porrected column ; fruit elliptic, oblong, bald, 
scarlet, of a fine flavour. 
26. Rosa arvensis. Fallow rose . 
Styles united; thorns hooked; root-shoot-thorns few; 
leaflets elliptical, unequally serrate. 
Rosa sylvestris altera minor, flore albo nostras, Raii Syn. 455, 4. 
Rosa sylvestris, Rosmer Arch. Bot. 1,2, S3. 
Rosa repens, Gmelin FI. Bad. Als. 2,418. 
Rosa canina jS, FI. Germ. 1, 218, and 2, 560. 
Rosa arvensis, Willd. S. P. 2, 1066. 
White dog rose. 
Hedges in flat countries ; shrubby ; June and July. 
Shrub 4 feet high ; root-shoots long, trailing ; leaflets 
roundish elliptical, lowest pair smallest, flat, inclining to 
crenate, bald on both sides, main rib sometimes hairy be- 
neath ; flowers 1 to 15, white, quite flat ; fruit elliptical, 
often globular when solitary, blood-colour, of a fine fla- 
vour. 
Fam. XXIV. 59. AGRIMONIACE2E. Roseacearum 
pars , De Candolle. Sanguisoi'lece, Richard. 
Calyx tubular, persisting ; limb 4 or 5-cut, often brac- 
teated in the sinuses; petals 4 or 5 on the top of the calyx, 
alternate with its lobes ; sometimes 0 ; stamens as many as 
the calyx-lobes or indefinite, inserted on the calyx under 
the petals; ovaries 1-ovuled, 1 -styled, solitary or definite, 
enclosed in the persistent pitchershape calyx ; akenium in- 
verted ; perisperm 0 ; corculum straight ; radicle above. — 
Stem herbaceous, or rather shrubby ; leaves pinnate or di- 
gitate ; flowers sometimes unisexual. 
