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old shooti5 filmost wliite, of the young ones smaller and red, some- 

 times none (in weak specimens). Leaves distant, dark green, or 

 on a chalky soil yellowish ; stipules narrow, flat, naked, fringed 

 with glands, red in the middle ; peliola pubescent, with scattered 

 glands and little falcate dorsal prickles 5 leaflets 5 — 7, flat, ovate, 

 somewhat waved, simply serrated, very glaucous beneath ; the rib 

 somewhat hairy. F/oR-ers solitary on thebranchlets, numerous on the 

 rootshoots, white, with a yellow base, and a slight scent, at first cv- 

 athiform, afterwards more open ; peduncles rough with glands and 

 a very few setae ; tube of the calyx ovate, naked ; cahjcine segments 

 short, ovate, concave, a little divided, those which are so, rough 

 with glands ; petals obovate, emarginate ; stamens persistent ; disk 

 elevated, fleshy; germens 15 — 2o ; styles united into a long smooth 

 column. Fruit scarlet, round or oblong. 



This is readily distinguished by the long smooth column of the styles 

 from all the British species, except the R. syslyla, which is known 

 by its assurgent, not trailing shoots, which are of a bright green 

 colour. R. arvensis is the Ayrshire Rose of the gardens, figured in 

 Bot. Mag. : another, however, goes by that name, the R. capreolata 

 oi Mr. Neill, in the Edin. Phil.Journ., which is i?. sempervirens. 



10. R. syslyla {loiig-slyled Rose), shoots assurgent, prickles 

 very stout hooked. Li/nlL p. II I . IVoods in Linn, Trans, v. 12. 

 p. 230. E. B. t. I8f)5 (/?. colllna). 



Hab. Hills, Ridrie, and hills to the N, of Milngaire, Tlopk. Fl. June. 



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A shrub with the habit, and for the most part with the characters of 



R.can., but differing chiefly in having its styles united into a long 

 smooth column, ancl more flowers in a duster^ 



6. RUBUS. 



1. R. idcBUS (Rasp-berry), leaves pinnate with 5 or 3 leaflets 

 white and very downy beneath, footstalks channelled, stem 

 nearly erect prickly. L/^/i(/. p. 263. E.B.t.2443. 



Hab. Woods frequent, even in the Highlands. Fl. June. Ij , 

 Stems woody and prickly. Leaflets subovate, somewhat cut and ser- 

 rated. Flowers pendulous. Petals small. Fruit scarlet in a wild 

 state. 



2. R. sulerectus (red-fruiled Bramlle), leaves pinnate with five 

 or seven ovate leaflets hairy beneath upper ones ternate, stems 

 nearly erect, prickles minute near! v straight, jinderson in Linn. 

 Tra?is 7;. 1 1 . p 2 1 S. t. 16. E. B. L 2572. D. Don, MSS. incd. 



Hab, Near Loch Ness and the Highlands of Aberdeen and Perth- 

 shire, Anderson. Woods at Inverary ; banks of Loch Duble, two 

 miles from Inverary, road-side between Govan and Renfrew, Maugh. 

 Hills of Angus-shire, G. Don. Banks of the burn that runs from 

 Mugdoch Loch above the waterfall, and in the woofl south of Mug- 

 doch Castle, Ilopk. Near Loch Lomond, abundant, D. Don. FL 

 June. Tj . 



Growing tolerably upright, without support, Prickles scattered. Leaf- 



