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divisions bordered with shining pedicellate glands, as long as the 
corolla, reflexed, at length erect and caducous ; styles brush- like ; disk 
plain ; flowers rose, afterwards whitish ; fruit ovoid, red. 
June, July. Hedges and woods. Holywell, Northumberland. 
Cleveland, Thirsk, Thornton, Gersnire (the specimens from this locality 
have unarmed branches), Muller (Baker). France, Belgium. 
4. R. Tauoniensis, Desegl. Herb. Ros. n. 36. 
5. R. on/issa, Desegl. Herb. Ros. n. 57. 
6. R. A)mesiensis,T)es6g\. Herb. Ros. n. 74. 
7. R. dimorplia, Besser, Enum. FL Volk. p. 19. R. mollis, Swartz ; 
—Billot, Exsicc. n. 1481. 
8. R.farinosa, Beclist. Forstb. p. 243. 
A somewhat high, branching shrub, prickles dilated at the base, 
straight, those on the branches weaker, not abundant ; petioles whitish, 
tomentose, canaliculate, some minute glands scattered on the upper 
surface, prickly below ; 5-7 leaflets, the lateral subsessile, the terminal 
oval with a long petiole ; leaflets oval, oval-elliptic, tomentose, of a 
bright green, whitish above (the French specimens have the leaves 
without glands below and dentate, whilst those from England have 
scattered glands and are doubly dentate) ; stipules lanceolate, glabrous 
above, hairy below, ciliate, glandulose at the margin ; points acute, di- 
vergent; peduncles solitary or 2-5, glabrous or pubescent, but not 
hispid ; bracts oval-lanceolate, cuspidate at the apex, generally shorter 
than the peduncles, the corymbs with two large bracts at their base, 
the outer peduncles of the trifid cymes support the bracts ; calyx-tube 
ovoid, glabrous ; calyx-segments with oval appendages at the apex, 
tomentose within, almost glabrous and glandless below (the English 
specimens have the segments glandulose below), 2 entire, 3 pinnatilid, 
projecting in the bud, shorter than the corolla, reflexed at flowering; 
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June. Hedges. Perthshire. (Hailstone in Herb. Baker.) France. 
9. R. tomentosa, Smith, FL Brit. ii. p. 539. R. tomentom, a. 
Siuithiana, Seringe, De Cand. Prod. ii. p. 618. R. insidiosa, Grenier, 
Ic. Eng. 
Fl. Jur. p. 233. R. villosa, /3, Hudson, Fl. Angl. p. 219 ;- 
Bot. t. 990, mala ;— Billot, Exsicc. n. 1662 and bis!; Wirt 
Exsicc. n. 78, 232, 271 ; Baker, Herb. Ros. Brit. n. 8. 
A tufted shrub with straight branches, prickles compressed at the 
