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pulz ; rootshoots more densely prickly and setigerous. 
Leaves close together; stipule broad, rugose, concave, 
red at the edge and middle and somewhat fringed, a 
little hairy ; petioles slender, downy, unarmed ; leaflets 
5, rarely 7, lanceolate, simply serrated, rugose, opaque, 
smooth and gray above, downy and cesious beneath, 
concave in the single, flat in the double plant. Flowers 
solitary, or two and three together, pale or bright red, 
small, single or double; bractee large, somewhat 
downy, rugose, concave, cesious, tinged with red at 
the edge and axis ; peduncles, round; tube of the calyx, 
and sepals, quite unarmed; the latter very narrow, 
longer than the petals, spreading in the flower, con- 
verging in the fruit, cottony at the edge; petals con- 
cave, obcordate ; disk obscure ; styles very villous, dis- 
tinct. Fruit round, naked, crimson, covered with a 
delicate waxen appearance, crowned by the converging 
sepals. 
This, on the authority of a plant found in the wood 
in Aketon pasture near Pontefract, has been considered 
a native of Britain, but I fear without sufficient reason. 
It is common over the greater part of Europe, growing 
in thickets and flowering early in the spring ; but it is 
much more common in the middle and southern coun- 
tries than in the northern ones, where it is scarcely 
found, its place being occupied in those regions by R. 
majalis, a very distinct thing, although hitherto consi- 
dered only a variety. From this difference in geogra- 
phical distribution, I suspect R. majalis of Desfon- 
taines, found wild in the north of Africa, to be the 
cinnamomea. Linnzeus certainly confounded the two, 
as appears from his herbarium, where they both exist 
marked with the same name. The plant, however, 
which he had before him, when the second edition of 
Species plantarum was written, is unquestionably this 
cinnamomea in a single state from the Upsal garden. 
The other was added afterwards, and may have been 
from wild plants in Sweden. Dr. Afzelius, in his first 
Tentamen, gives it as his opinion that the R. spinosissima 
of Linnzus is a sort of cinnamomea, not however ex- 
