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pilose above paler and pilose only on the veins beneath, term. It. 

 obovate acuminate, pan. loog narrow leafy below its branches 

 corymbose its rachis straight its prickles slender declining its 

 aciculi setae and hairs many and unequal, sep. ovate- attenuate 

 aciculate ivithlong setce felted loosely re flexed from the fruit. 

 R. G. 42. R. hirtus ft. Menkii Bab. R. pyc/mceus Bab. not 

 Weihe. St. perhaps prostrate. Pan. rather long with distant 

 short axillary branches, uppermost very short and often divari- 

 cate. Pet. white or pinkish. " Pale stam. exceeding pink-based 

 styles." Hedges. South-eastern counties. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



28. R. scdber (Weihe) ; st. arcuate -prostrate subargular sub- 

 sulcate, prickles strong short nearly equal declining or deflexed 

 from a long compressed base, aciculi setae and hairs few very 

 short, 1. 3 o-nate, Its. doubly dentate opaque and pilose above 

 pale green and pilose beneath, term. It. broadly obovate cuspi- 

 date or acuminate subcordate below, pan. subpyrarnidal leafy 

 felted truncate or blunt at the end its axillary branches erect- 

 patent racemose the ultra-axillary racemose-corymbose or simple 

 its prickles short declining or deflexed from a long base its aci- 

 culi strong its setae and hairs nearly equal, sep. ovate-acuminate 

 loosely reflexed from the fruit. R. G. 32.- Stam. inflexed ex- 

 ceeding styles. The typical plant is slender and elegant, pan. 

 often nearly simple with long peduncles. The large form (R. 

 Sabingtonii Bell-Salt.) is often an enormous plant with very 

 rough long prostrate stems, a very large panicle with very large 

 and long branches. Pet. white. Open woods. Sh. VII. VIII. 



E. 



29. R, riidis (Weihe) ; st. arcuate angular subsulcate, prickles 

 strong conical compressed nearly equal subpatent exceeding 

 the nearly equal and short aciculi setce and hairs, 1. quinate, 

 Its. coarsely and doubly serrate (or lobate-serrate) greenish-white^ 

 felted beneath, term. It. elliptic or broadly oblong-obovate acumi- 

 nate, pan. long leafy its branches ascending corymbose-racemose 

 the uppermost and ultra-axillary divaricate its rachis straight 

 its prickles strong declining or deflexed from a long base the 

 uppermost slender, sep. ovate-attenuate strongly reflexed. 

 R. G. 40. The nearly equal not scattered prickles, short aciculi 

 setae and hairs, jagged Its. felted beneath, and strongly reflexed 

 sepals are marks of this species. Pet. white. Stam. exceeding 

 styles. Hedges and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



30. R. Rddula (Weihe); st. arcuate angular, prickles slender 

 declining from a dilated compressed base exceeding the many 

 short unequal aciculi setce and hairs, 1. quinate-pedate. Its. finely 

 but doubly and patently dentate greenish-white-felted beneath, 

 term. It. obovate acuminate or subcuspidate, pan. long leafv its 



