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4, Re acicularis Lindl, Prickly Rose, A low bushy shrub 0,5=1 m, tall, 
the stems and commonly the branches armed with rather weak slender straight 
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and scattered prickles, without stipular or internodal prominent spines; 
leaves obovate in outline, the stipules broadly ovate, acute, glandular- 
ciliolate, the leaflets 3-7, oval or oval-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, 
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rounded at the base, simply or doubly serrate, glabrous above, often 
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resinous~pubescent below, 2-5 om, longs flowers usually single, 5-8 om, 
broad, the calyx-tube pear~shaped, glabrous, the calyx-lobes lanceolate, 
now acuminate, now spatulate-dilated above, entire or few=-toothed, : 
persistent and erect upon the hips; fruit globose or ovoid, sometimes as 
much aS 2e0 cm. long, usually glabrous, 
Widely distributed, comprising several races differing in fruit and 
pubescence characters, but mostly of woodse 
