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ing at the back a few strong short straightish little 
prickles, glandular; leaflets 3-7, usually 5, small, stiff, 
ovate, acute, flat, very finely and simply toothed; ser- 
ratures with a gland on one side of a deep dull green, 
rugose, and naked above, pale ash-colour, with a hairy 
rib and prominent veins beneath, the lowest pair, when 
more than three, generally very small. Flowers soli- 
tary, overtopped by the young shoots, without bractez, 
purple, always very double ; peduncle with no hairs but 
a few weak setee: tube of the calyx ovate, naked; sepals 
ovate with a point, nearly simple, concave, reflexed, 
hairy and scattered over with glands, very much shorter 
than the petals; these are spreading, except the inner 
ones, which are in part formed from the ovaria and 
very closely imbricated ; styles hairy, a little exserted, 
and adhering by their down. 
I have little hesitation in distinguishing this parti- 
cularly from the last, especially as I have the authority 
of the accurate and observing Ehrhart for doing so. 
It surely differs as much from gallica as that does from 
centifclia, and asI have no varieties to enumerate of it, 
there is the less difficulty in finding characters that 
may be depended upon. I have seen it growing in the 
most sterile and the most fertile soils; yet without 
material alteration in its appearance, and most cer- 
tainly without the slightest tendency to assume the cha- 
racters of gallica. M. Durand is reported, on the 
authority of Decandolle, to have found this wild on 
mountains in the neighbourhood of Dijon. 
