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pink, in spreading. axillary 

 racemes with a large, deeply- 

 toothed pink bract at the base 

 of each pedicel ; calyx villous, 

 with acviminate lobes, the outer 

 ones toothed. 



Creeks near "NVillunga, called 

 locally French Blackberry. — 

 Sept. -Nov. --Ea.stei-n and nor- 

 thern Australia ; Indian Archi- 

 pelago. 



2. Rosa, L. 



Calyx with an urnshaped 

 tube contracted at the summit 

 and surmounted by 5 segments : 

 petals 5 ; carpels numerous, 1- 

 seeded, hairy, bony when ripe, 

 and enclosed within the, fleshy, 

 berry-like red or black calyx- 

 tube. Shrubs with odd-pinnate 

 leaves ; stipules adherent to 

 petiole. 



Lt-aflet-s g-laiictular beneath 



Leaflets glabrous, or glandular only 

 teeth 



Rubus moluccanus. 



the 



li. ruhiffhiosa 1 



li. 



Siceetbriar 



canina 2 



Dense shrub 



1. Rosa rubig^inosa, L. 



with stout unequal curbed prickles on the stem, often inter- 

 mixed witli short, straight ones; 

 leaves deciduous, leaflets 5-7, 

 small, double-toothed, glandular 

 beneath and on the teeth, the 

 glands fragrant when rubbed ; 

 flowers pink, 1-3, on pedicels 

 beset with prickles or .stiff, 

 glandular hairs; calyx-segments 

 glandular on the back, usually 

 3 of them pinnately lobed ; fruit 

 o^'oid or oblong, often prickly. 



Gullies and scrub. Mount Lofty 

 Range. — Oct. -Dec. — Europe. 



2. R. canina, L. T)n{i Hose. 

 Very like the preceding, but 

 without scented gland.s on the 

 leaves ; pedicels and fruit glab- 

 rous ; outer calyx-segments very 

 long, pinnately lobed and re- 

 curved after flowering ; fruit 

 almost globular. 



Roadsides, hedges, creeks : 

 Adelaide plains and hills. — Oct.- 

 Rosa canina. Nov. — Europe; western Asia. 



