298 THE NATURALIST. 



iii. PiMPiNELLiFOLi^. — Uiider-shrubs, generally covered with liorizontal, 

 slender, straight prickles ; leaves very small, glabrous, coriaceous, 

 rounded or obtuse, somewhat similar to thos3 of Poterium ; calyx 

 divisions entire, persistent ; styles free. 



iv. CiNNAMOME^.. — Shrubs, with branches of a cinnamon-hrown colour ; 

 prickles of the stems straight, unequal, subulate and setaceous, not 

 glandulose, caducous ; those of the branches situate at the base of the 

 leaves ; calyx divisions entire, persistent ; peduncles furnished with 

 very larye bracts ; styles free. 



T. Alpine. — Stems ivithout prickles, or very rarely armed with setaceous 

 spines : leaves glabrous; calyx divisions entire, persistent; styles free^ 



vi. CANiNiE. — More or less elevated shrubs ; prickles uniform, scattered, 

 not mixed with glanduliferous sette ; leaves glabrous or villose, never 

 glandulose beneath, simply or doubly dentate ; calyx divisions the 

 interior entire, the exterior pinnatifii, deciduous before the fruit 

 ripens — in a few species of this section they are persistent. Styles 

 free, slightly protruded ; flowers rose-colour or white. 



vii. Eglanteri^." — Leaves slightl}" pubescent, and glandulose beneath; 

 flowers large, of a bright yellow, or reddish-yellow inside ; styles free. 



viii. RuBiGiNOS^. Prickles strong, hooked, rarely straight, and sometimes 

 degenerating at the summit of the flowering stems, into glanduliferous 

 setse ; leaves more or less covered with viscous glands beneath, very 

 rarely nbove ; external calyx divisions pinnatifid, deciduous, occasion- 

 ally persisteni ; styles free. 



ix. Tomentos^.^^ Prickles straight or nearly so ; leaves greij-tomentose or 

 softly villose on both sides, as if felted ; peduncles generally all glandu- 

 lose ; calyx divisions persistent or deciduous ; styles free. 



{Tg be continued.) 



(11) This section ouglit perhaps to be included in tlie following one {Buhiginosce) 

 on account of its glandulose leaves. The colour of the petals, and the form of the 

 prickles, ought, however, 1 think, to establish it as a separate section. 



(12) This section includes species with le^ives glandulose beneath, and which 

 ought perhaps to be placed in the Jlubif/i)iosce; however, the habit of these plants, 

 the clothing of their leaves, and the prickles, are opposed, I thmk, to this union. 



