ROSACEA. Lia 
church, co. Dublin, belong to this species ; as, however, it is likely 
to be a casual introduction, it is considered best for the present to 
exclude it until its present existence in Ireland be ascertained. 
CORONILLA VARIA. Zinn. 
Reported to have been found at Berry Head and Linton, 
Devonshire, and also in the Lake district ; but these statements 
require confirmation before so conspicuous a plant can be admitted 
into the British list. 
ORDER XXVI.—ROSACE A. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate simple or compound 
leaves. Stipules usually conspicuous, free or more or less 
adhering at the base to the petiole. Flowers regular, often yellow 
or white, solitary, or in simple or compound corymbose cymes 
or panicles, more rarely in racemes, spikes, heads, or umbels. In- 
florescence generally terminal. Sepals 5, more rarely 4 or 3 (or 
double these numbers by the addition of an epicalyx exterior to 
the calyx), more or less united at the base, valvate or imbricated 
in eestivation, the odd one superior or turned towards the axis of 
the inflorescence. Petals 5, more rarely 4, perigynous, caducous, 
sometimes absent. Stamens indefinite, rarely definite, distinct, 
perigynous, inserted immediately within the petals. Ovary free 
from the calyx, consisting of 1 carpel, or of few or numerous 
distinct ones; or of 2 to 5 united to each other and adhering 
to the calyx-tube. Ovules 1, 2, or several, anatropous. Styles 
lateral or terminal, free, rarely united. Fruit consisting of achenes 
or follicles, sometimes a drupe or a pome. Seeds 1 or more; 
albumen none; embryo nearly straight. 
Sus-OrpErR I.—AMYGDALE. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple undivided leaves, having stipules 
not adhering to the petiole and persistent only on the barren shoots, 
deciduous on the flowering ones. Calyx inferior (free from the 
ovary), splitting in a circumcissile manner, and the greater portion 
deciduous. Petals white or pink. Stamens indefinite. Carpels 
solitary, containing 2 ovules. Style terminal. Fruit a drupe, with 
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