56 24. ROSACE^S. 



numerous long, straight or declining, slender prickles, aciculi, 

 sette, and hairs. Sep. acute, strongly reflexed. 



Common. Hedges and thickets. (E) Sh. 7 8. Near Milngavie ; Baldernock ; 

 banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal ; Cumbrae, &c. 



Var. Rdduki) Weihe. Stem arching, angular; prickles unequal, 

 declining from a short base, aciculi and setae numerous, deciduous, 

 leaving the stem rough, pilose. Le. quinate, deep green above, 

 greenish white felted beneath (green when in shade) , with a few 

 longer hairs on the veins, oval or obovate, acuminate or cuspidate, 

 doubly dentato-serrate. Panicle long, leafy, with short spreading 

 corymbose branches ; rachis and pedicels with numerous aciculi 

 and setse, stiffly hairy; prickles declining, the upper ones slender. 

 Sep. ovate, loosely reflexed. 



Not common. In woods and hedges. (E) Sh. 7 8. Cambuslang glen; Cum- 

 brae and Bute. 



Var. Koehl'eri, Weihe. Stem arching or prostrate, roundish 

 or slightly angular, more or less hairy ; prickles numerous, very 

 unequal, scattered, slightly declining ; aciculi and setse unequal, 

 thickened at the base. Le. quiiiate ; leaflets roughly hairy below, 

 sometimes green felted, hairy on the veins beneath, obovate, 

 acuminate, doubly dentate. Panicle corymbose at the apex, with 

 the terminal fl. very short, lateral branches short; prickles strong, 

 declining or hooked ; aciculi and setse numerous, unequal, spar- 

 ingly hairy. Sep. ovate, attenuate. 



Common. In hedges and thickets. (E) Sh. 78. Paisley Canal bank ; Cath- 

 cart ; Gourock ; Cumbrae and Arran. 



5. FRAGAEIA. Strawberry. 



1. P. VESCA, L. Wood-Strawberry. Stem tufted, sending out 

 long slender runners, rooting at the joints where young plants are 

 produced. Le. mostly radical, ternate; leaflets ovate, toothed, 

 unequal at the base, somewhat plicate, with silky hairs. Scape 

 generally leafless, terminating with white cymose flowers ; hairs 

 of the peduncles widely spreading, of the pedicels adpressed. 



Common. Hedge banks and woods. Paisley Canal banks; Kelvin woods; 

 banks of Clyde, &c. (B) P. 57. 



* 2. F. ELATIOR, Ehr. Hautboy -Strawberry. Very like the 

 former, but stouter and more hairy, with much larger flowers. 

 Scapes and pedicels densely hairy, with the hairs somewhat deflexed. 



Frequent near houses where it has been cultivated. Stonelaw, beyond Ruther- 

 glen; Cathcart; Cambuslang; Garscube, &c. P. 6 9. 



6. C6MARUM. Marsh-Cinquefoil. 



C. PALUSTRE, L. Rhizome extensively creeping, with ascend- 

 ing flowering stems, 1 2 ft. high. Le. with 5 7 oblong or 



