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XXVIL KOSACE^ : hosem. 



L^ubus. 



Thickets and moist heaths, frequent ; $. less common ; y^ j.„ 

 5, 6, — Leaflets 3 — 7, white beneath. Fruit very pulpy, usually scarlet 

 rarely amber-coloured, Prickli/ setce usually dark red, pale in th 

 plants bearing amber-coloured fruit. Plant spreading by suckers 



2. R. suherectus And. (red-fruited Sr.) ; stem without haii's 

 or setae round, prickles straight small few or many, leaves pin. 

 nate or digitate, leaflets cordate acuminate, flowers erect, petals 

 spreading slightly exceeding the calyx. _B. B. t. 2572. 



trifoliatits 



li. 



Boggy heaths and wet places, chiefly in the north, not frequent- 

 0, rare. 6, 7. — Panicle mostly branched. Petals white. Fruit red 

 soon dying. Leaflets 3 — 9, glabrous on "both sides, pale green* 

 This species and the following increase abundantly by seed. 



3 



( 



out hairs or set^e, prickles few curved, leaves" quinate, leaflets 

 mostly ovate plicate, flowers erect, petals spreading, twice as 

 lonnr as the calyx. W. and N.: E. B. S. t. 2714.— /3. carinatus; 

 leaflets lanceolate, carinated. 



Moist heaths and boggy places, not rare ; jS. rare. 5, 6- — Panicle 

 usually simple, racemose, with long pedicels. Petals white or pale 

 pink. Fruit scarcely black. Leaflets dark green above pale beneath. 



(See 4 R. rhamnifolins ^,) 



** Stem shrubby arched or procumbent ^ perennial^ rooting at the end, 



f Ste^n destitute of setce. 



Group ii. CoRYLiFOLTi Lindl. Stem polished, glabrous or 

 slightly hairy; hairs patent, translucent; leaves digitate qidnate; 



leaflets pubescent 



) 



(F 



a. Calyx reflected from the fruits. 



4. 

 ) 



rhamnifol 



(JBuckthorn-leaved Br, or 



directed backwards, panicle branched. 



W. 



'difolius 



W. and N. 



difoli 



ing. 11. nitiaus W. and N, 

 numerous. K. svlvaticus 



l3.^nitidus ; stem suberect, panicle leafy, spread- 



y- sylvaticus; stem villous, prickles 



R. villicaulis W. and N. 



W. and N. 



Hedges and thickets, frequent. 5,6. — A variable plant ; /3. has 

 much the habit of R, plicatus ; it is, however, distinctly osculant with 

 a, and 7. Stem green. Petals white or pale pink. 



5. E. macrophj/llus W. and N*. ? (large-leaved B.) ; stem fur- 

 rowed, slightly hairy, prickles equal few mostly small, leaflets 

 elliptic-acuminate very pliant. j&. JS, S. t. 2625. W. andNJ 



