ROSACE.E. 195 



entered here in deference to the learned authors of the London 

 Catalogue. 



d. ToMENTOSi. — Stem angular, witli concave sides, more or less clothed with 

 silky hau's ; prickles mostly on the angles of the stem, stout, clothed at the 

 base with silky down (pubescence). Leaves of the barren stem quinate, 

 of the fertile one ternate or quinate, white or hoary below. Flowers in 

 mostly leafless, downy panicles. 



16. R. discolor, W. and N. — fruticosus, e.b. 715. l.c. (14). 

 Two-coloured-leaved Bramble. A. 9. C. 21. Lat. 51-55°. 



Stems glaucous, with minute, silky hairs; prickles stout, 

 mostly hooked, of the same colour as the stem, except at the 

 tops, where they are yellowish-brown, and without down (tomcn- 

 tum) . Leaflets all petioled, not overlapping, cuneate, oblong, or 

 obovate, pointed, serrated, teeth unequal, glabrous above, white 

 and downy below. Flowers in compound or simple clusters; 

 rach and branches downy. Sepals ovate, clothed with short down, 

 with short points. Petals varying from pure white to deep red. 



Very common in hedges. Shrub. July, August. 



Var. /3. %7•50^^e6r, Bab. l.c. (13). (A. 5." C. 12. Lat. 51-54°.) 

 — Stems and prickles glabrous, nearly without pubescence. Leaf- 

 lets more elongate and not so leathery nor so white below as in 

 the typical form;* panicle closer and more elongate. — Compare 

 ' Phytologist,' iii. 182. 



Var. 7. macroacantlms, Bell Salt. — Stem greenish, rough with 

 spreading hairs and long slender prickles ; leaflets broad, rounded, 

 coarsely toothed, teeth mucronate, hoary below. 



Var. argenteus, l.c (17). — Stem purplish, with fewer spread- 

 ing hairs; prickles more hooked or declinate, not clothed half 

 way up with shaggy hairs. Leaflets petioled, obovate, with 

 unequal teeth, hoary below. Flowers in compound clusters. 

 Sepals shaggy. 



Yav. villicauUs. (A. 9. C. 16. Lat. 51-55^.) — Stem hairy or 

 woolly. Leaflets obovate, sharply serrated, not so tomentose un- 

 derneath as the above forms of discolor. — Nearer to R. leucosta- 

 chys than to R. discolor ? 



e. Stems hairy. 



17. R. rudis, Weihe. Rough Bramble. — l.c. (26). A. 10. 

 C. 20. Lat. 51-56°. 



Stem angidar, furrowed with numerous setae and aciculi (small 

 prickles); prickles equal, nearly straight, deflcxed, long and slender, 



