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and softly but often finely felted beneath. Pet, white. Fil. 

 white ; anth. rather fuscous. Drupes few, subacid. Hedges 

 and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 1. 



b. St/lvatici. Stem with moderate mostly equal prickles 

 and (often dense) hairy-woolly patent (but often deci- 

 duous) pubescence. Leaves usually green but sometimes 

 white- felted beneath. 



14. R. Ieuc6stachys (Sm.) ; st. arcuate-prostrate angular hairy 

 woolly and felted, prickles many subpatent slender from a dilated 

 compressed base, 1. quinate, Us. flat hairy and shining 1 and eojtly 

 yellowish or whitely felted beneath, term. It. obovate ovate or 

 roundish cuspidate, pan. long narrow felted hairy setose its 

 branches short few-flowered its prickles slender declining or 

 angularly deflexed, cal. green-felted hairy setose aciculate. a : 

 st. arcuate-prostrate, prickles mostly on the angles of the stein 

 equal, Its. coriaceous obovate sublobate-serrate yellowish-white- 

 felted and shining beneath. E. B. S. 2631. St. nearly pros- 

 trate, covered with loose spreading clustered hairs. Pan. very 



\ narrow, long. Pet. pinkish. Stan), with pink base upright, 

 exceeding the pink-based styles. Fr. purplish black, /3. It. res- 

 fit us (Weihe) ; st. arcuate, prickles unequal scattered, Its. cor- 

 date-roundish cuspidate irregularly dentate pale green beneath. 

 It. G. 33. St. often nearly round and bearing a few aciculi and 

 s( A tae. Lts. rather thin. Hedges, thickets and woods. Sh. VII. 

 VIII. E. I. 



15. H. li-'fifoliifs (Mull.) ; st, arcuate- prostrate angular 

 pilose, prickles nearly equal small declining from a dilated com- 

 pressed base, 1. quinate, Its. flat pale green and pilose only on the. 

 veins beneath, term. It. obovate acuminate, panicle narrowly pyra- 

 midal its branches few-flowered its prickles few slender, sepals 

 greenish felted and with pale edges externally, stam. exceeding 

 the styles. Pan. -branches often 1-fl. Sep. ovate, leaf-pointed. 



R. pyramidalis Kaltenb. ? Bushy and heathy places. Near 

 Plymouth. Isle of Wight. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



16. It. Grabows'kii (Weihe) ; st. arcuate angular svbylabrous, 

 prickles many equal declining or deflexed much dilated and 

 compressed below, 1. quinate, Its. plicate opaque and glabrous 

 above ashy -felted beneath irregularly dentate imbricate, term. It. 

 cordate abruptly cuspidate (on the tl. -shoot much dilated below), 

 pan. long leafy below its branches ascending racemose-corym- 

 bose its prickles many deflexed, cal. ashy-felted and hairy. R. 

 i-arpiuifolius Boir. E.B. S. 2664 ? R. montanus Focke. St. with 



