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pale blue, waxen bloom; rootshoots with a few weak 
setiform prickles at their base. Leaves opaque, entirely 
free from pubescence ; stipule broad, much dilated to- 
wards the extremities, flat, sérvnlnges petioles un- 
armed ; leaflets 5-7, lanceolate, simply serrate, grayish 
green above, glaucous beneath. Flowers small, red, 
in few flowered cymes; bractee elliptical, naked, 
fringed and_ toothletted ; peduncles shorter than the 
leaves; tube of the calyx depressedly globose, gray— 
these last quite naked ; sepals ovate, entire, with a long 
point, hispid at the back ; petals obcordate, somewhat 
converging; disk not distinct; styles villous. Fruit 
small, round or ovate, dull pale red, naked. 
I have already attempted to explain why this, the 
original R. blanda, should not now be distinguished by 
that appellation. In determining on another for it, I 
have thought it right to take the oldest, excepting Mil- 
ler’s, for Shick probably no one will contend. The 
description of Bosc’s R. corymbosa answers so closely 
to this species, that I have few doubts of the propriety 
of citing it here. So little reason was there to Sepp ose 
this to be a variety of R. blanda, that, in the last edi 
tion of the Hortus Kewensis, it sae actually been ak 
sidered not distinct from R. alpina, 
Gathered in Newfoundland by Sir Joseph Banks. 
The want of prickles distinguishes this from most 
of the section. R. blanda when unarmed, as it often 
is, is readily known by the downy stalks of its leaves. 
Cinnamomea in a similar state may be recognised by 
the same character, with the addition of the majority 
of its leaves and its stipules being inflexed at the edge, 
not reflexed. 
