106 26. ROSACES. 



with large bases, 1. 3-nate or 5-nate- pedate green and pilose on 

 both sides paler and more hairy beneath doubly dentate, term. 

 It. obovate cuspidate or acuminate subcordate below, pan. sub- 

 pyramidal tomentose leafy below, branches divaricate racemose- 

 corymbose, prickles small declining or detiexed large-based, 

 setae nearly equal shorter than the hairs, sep. setose and prickly 

 loosely reflexed. R. G. 32. JR. Babingtonii Bell-Salt. ! Rarely 

 the st. is furrowed. Shape of Its. variable. Woods. Widely 

 distributed but not common. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



vi. Ctssii. St. round or bluntly angular with few, or no, hairs 

 setae or glands and usually a glaucous bloom. Prickles 

 usually unequal 2 . 



35. R. Balfourianus (Blox.); st. arched roundish or bluntly 

 angular with scattered patent hairs and a few aciculi and setae 

 or subsessile glands, prickles rather unequal slender conical sub- 

 patent, /. 5-nate green on both sides pilose above downy beneath 

 dentate-serrate, term. It. cordate or ovate acute, basal* Its. sub- 

 sessile imbricate (?), pan. lax leafy hairy tomentose setose with 

 long distant axillary spreading few-flowered racemose-corymbose 

 branches, sep. ovate-attenuate with a long point, fr.-cal. erect 

 patent, fr. depressed. St. with few rarely many prickles. Pan. 

 often very thinly tomentose setose and hairy. Sep. often leaf- 

 pointed, prickly, setose. St. not floccose with few or no aciculi 

 or setae, pan. very broad lax and corymbose. Subglabrous (R, 

 Balfourianus Blox.) ; or, st. with scattered short nearly equal aci- 

 culi and setae, pan. closer and longer (JR. tenuiarmatus Lees). 

 The extremes of these plants are very different, but there appear 

 to be connecting forms. Woods and hedges. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



36. R. corylifolius (Sm.) ; st. prostrate or arched nearly round 

 throughout or bluntly angular upwards nearly or quite glabrous 

 or with a few aciculi and setae or subsessile glands, prickles 

 straight mostly equal, 1. 5-nate pale and soft beneath, term. It. 

 roundly ovate or cordate pointed, basal Its. subsessile imbricate, 

 pan. and branches subcorymbose, sep. ovate reflexed, styles green- 

 ish, torus oblong stalked. St. slightly glaucous. Pan. usually 

 with 2 or 3 long axillary branches, closely tomentose, top with 

 more or less prominent setae. a. E. sublustris (Lees) ; st. round 

 green, prickles slender from a small base patent, 1. whitish-to- 

 mentose beneath coarsely toothed, term.lt. usually lobed roundish- 



1 The plants formerly included under the name of R. Babingtonii 

 are now referred respectively to R. scaber, R. pyramidalis and R.fusco- 

 ater ft, Colemanni. 



2 The plants contained in the section are far from being determined 

 satisfactorily. R. Wahlbergi (Bab. not Arrh.) is now placed partly 

 under R. corylifolius and partly under R. nemoroms. 



