178 25. R. ROSACEUS. 



minute tubercles. Prickles all small and slender, unequal, 

 with long compressed bases, the smaller scattered, the larger 

 chieHy confined to the angles of the stem. Leaves quinate- 

 pedate or ternate. Leaflets doubly and rather coarsely 

 dentate- serrate, dark green and pilose above, paler and 

 pilose or hairy on the veins beneath ; basal leaflets shortly 

 stalked, oblong, bluntish ; intermediate obovate-acuminate ; 

 terminal broadly obovate or oblong, usually subcordate at 

 the base, often narrowing uniformly from about the middle 

 to the end : ternate leaves have the lateral leaflets very 

 unequal-sided or strongly lobed externally (in the Ruhi 

 Germanici the plant is represented with a ternate leaf of 

 the latter kind) ; petioles flat above ; stipules slender. 



Flowering shoot from fuscous ashy scales, lather hairy, 

 very setose ; prickles slender, declining, from a long com- 

 pressed base ; aciculi, setae and hairs many and unequal. 

 Leaves ternate. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, slightly pilose 

 above, paler and slightly pilose on the veins beneath j 

 lateral shortly stalked. Panicle rather pyramidal, blunt or 

 truncate j axillary branches several, rather distant, the 

 uppermost corymbose, the others becoming longer succes- 

 sively downwards and racemose, all falling short of the 

 leaves ; ultra-axillary part short and broad, with short 

 about 3-flowered corymbose or simple and 1-flowered patent 

 branches ; on the branches the terminal are shorter than 

 the lateral flower-stalks ; rachis slightly wavy ; peduncles 

 and branches with slender aciculi, many unequal setas, a 

 thin coat of rather adpressed hairs, but no felt. (Some- 

 times the hairs are more abundant and cross each other so 

 as greatly to resemble felt, but the fine coat forming real 

 felt (or tomentum) seems to be always wanting.) Sepals 

 lanceolate-attenuate, green externally with a whitish border, 

 setose, felted, often slightly aciculate, patent or loosely ad- 

 pressed to the fruit. Petals "pale pink," oblong. Styles 



