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the lateral subsessile, the terminal with a long petiole, rounded at the 
base, more or less acute at the summit, leaflets oval or elliptic-oblong, 
soft, tomentose above, tomentose and glandulose below, doubly dentate, 
the principal teeth ending in a mucro, the secondary in a gland ; stipules 
lanceolate, glabrous above, hairy and glandulose below, fringed with 
glands, points divergent ; peduncles solitary or 2-4, hispid, glandu- 
. lose, with largish oval bracts, cuspidate at the summit, glabrous above, 
pubescent and glandulose below, shorter than the peduncles; tube of 
the calyx . . . (receptaculum ellipticum, nunc setis aliquot fortioribus 
quam quae in pedunculo munitum, nunc glaberrimum, Woods, 1. c.) ; 
calyx-segments with appendages often denticulate, glandulose below, 
2 entire, 3 pinnatifid, with short filiform appendages, styles with 
hairy stigmas ; disk plain ; flowers . . . (flores concavi ; petala alba, 
maculis sanguineis gemmae persistentibus, Woods, I.e.); fruit large, 
ellipsoid, red, glabrous, crowned by the connivent and persistent re- 
flexed calyx-segments. 
England : Thirsk, and Sowerby, Northumberland, Durham, Leicester, 
Suffolk, Worcester, Kent, Somerset. Wicklow (Baker). 
12. R. Sherardi, Davies and Smith, Engl. Fl. iv. 269.— R. sub- 
globosa, Sm. I.e. ii. p. 384. R. tomentosa, var. e, Woods, I.e. p. 201, 
and Herb. n. 43. R. sylvestris, folio molliter hirsuto,fructu rotundo 
glabra, calyce et pedunculo hispidis, Kay, Synops. ed. 3, p. 478 ; 
Billot, Exs. n. 1481 bis!; Wirtgen, Exs/n. 233; Desegl. Herb. 
Eos. n. 37. 
Shrub a little elevated, tufted, branching ; branches lax, spinose ; 
prickles unequal, more or less strong, compressed, straight or a little 
curved; petioles tomentose, with some minute glands, prickly below; 
5-7 leaflets, all petiolate, the terminal rounded at the base, leaflets 
oval acute or rounded, pubescent above, greyish tomentose below, doubly 
dentate, with glandulose teeth ; stipules lanceolate, glabrous above, 
pubescent below, fringed with glandulose cilia, points diverging ; pe- 
duncles solitary or in a corymb, hispid glandulose, with oval cuspidate 
bracts, glabrous above, pubescent below, fringed with glandulose cilia, 
generally shorter than the peduncles; calyx-tube nearly globular, con- 
tracted at the summit, hispid, calyx-segments spathulate at the apex, 
glandular below, 2 entire, 3 pinnatifid, with short appendages, ciliated 
or bordered with pedicellate glands, shorter than the corolla, somewhat 
patent under the fruit, at length reflexed and caducous ; styles with 
