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leaves ternate; flowers few, in small, loose panicles; fruit 

 covered with glaucous bloom when ripe. — Dewberry. — Open 

 fields and stony wastes. Fl. June to August. 



R. saxatilis : stems ascending, simple, seldom above one foot 

 high, slender, downy, with few prickles; leaves ternate, the 

 leaflets obovate, coarsely -serrate ; flowers on slender pedicels, 

 two or three together in the axils of the upper leaves, forming 

 short racemes or corymbs, dirty white or greenish yellow; 

 berries red, Avith few large carpels. — Stony mountainous 

 places. — Fl. June. 



B. Chamsemorus : stems simple, herbaceous, unarmed, 

 6-10 inches high ; leaves few, large, simple, broadly orbicular 

 or reniform, deeply-cut into 5-9 broad lobes ; flowers white, 

 rather large, solitary on terminal peduncles; fruit orange-red, 

 — Cloudberry. — Turfy Alpine bogs. Fl. June. 



(89) Eosa. Rose. 

 * JBrancJies hearing glandular spiny hairs (sefce). 

 t PricJcles straight, slender, scarcely dilated at the hase. 

 R. pimpinellifolia {spinosissima of authors) : shrub erect, 

 branched, 1-2 feet high, with numerous, unequal, straight, 

 slender prickles, intermixed with glandular hairs ; leaflets small, 

 7-9, with simple teeth ; flowers small, white or pink, solitary 

 at the end of the short branches ; calyx- segments lanceolate, 

 almost always entire ; fruit black, rarely red, globular or nearly 

 so, crowned by the persistent segments of the calyx. — Sandy 

 heaths. — Fl. May, June. The origin of our garden Scotch 

 Koses. 



tt Prickles hooked, very tmequal, much dilated at the base. 

 R. rubiginosa: shrub; bushy, somewhat slender, the 

 prickles of the stems curved and intermixed with a few setae ; 

 leaflets small, usually doubly-toothed, glandular, scented; 



