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XXYIl. ROSACE-^ : KOSE^. 



[Ruhis, 



gular hispid with unequal prickles and aclculi, hairs and seta^ 

 few, leaves 3 — 5-nate, leaflets obovate-cuspidate nearly q]c.^ 

 brous on both sides doubly crenato-dentate, sepals ovate-lan- 

 ceolate cuspidate hairy. i^\ and N.: Bab. R. " 

 W. and N. — 



thyrsiflorus 



7 



13. pp-amidalis ; leaflets decurved, sepals prickly 

 Bahingtonii^ stem furrowed, angles rounded. I^' 



— S. Bloxamii ; branches of tlie 

 Babingtonii /3 Bloxamii Bell Sah 



Bab, 



Babingtonii Bell Salter olim. 

 panicle short corymbose. 

 ter olim : Bab> 



Thickets, rare, 7, 8. - 

 the hranches themselves 

 small. Petals white. 



- Panicle often extremely large and branched 

 forming large panicles. Flowers and fruit 



aciculi, leaves pedate 



16. R. Koehleri W. {KoeUer's B.) 



numerous broad-based prickles and ^ 



quinate, leaflets ovate-acuminate pubescent and prickly beneath 

 sepals lanceolate setose and prickly. B. B. S, t. 2Q05,~fi] 

 apiculatus; stem procumbent, hairs and seta3 not numerous. 



11. Koehleri W. et JV. 



leafy to the top. 



rotund-ovate finely serrate, lower 

 R. fusco-ater W. et N, 

 the angles of the stem. 



— d.fiisco-ater . 

 pair overlapping. 

 -e.fmcus ; prickles mostly cor 

 Bab. R. fuscus W. et N. 



Bori\ 



Wood 



7, 8, — Stem very prickly, purplish-green. 

 Panicle variable often much branched. 



Leaves glossy, soft beneath. 

 Petals white or pale pink. 



17. R. humifnsus W. (trailing B.) ; stem procumbent, prickles 

 and aciculi numerous slender often gland-tijjped, leaves ternate 

 or pedate-quinate, leaflets cordate acuminate doubly and un- 

 equally serrate, branches of the panicle appressed thickly 

 clothed with seta3 aciculi and slender gland-tipped prickles, 

 sepals lanceolate setose prickly. W. et N. : Bab. 



Woods and thickets^ very rare. 6, 7. — PZawif light green, creeping 

 with upright panicles growing apparently from the earth ; well dis- 

 tinguished by this mode of growth, and its needle-like gland-tipped 

 prickles. Petals white. 



(See 8. R. Carpinifolius ^8.) 



b. Calyx patent after flowering, 



18. R. Mrtus Waldst. et Kit. (hairy B,) ; stem procumbent 

 setose and very hairy, prickles and aciculi horizontal, leaves 

 3— 5-nate, leaflets ovate-cordate unequally serrate soft and 

 pubescent, panicle setose and hairy. W. and N.—^tS. Menkei; 

 leaves moderate 5- or 3-nate, leaflets oval lanceolate, panicle 

 hairy, calyx, prickly." Bab. 



Thickets, rare. '' ^. near Tonbridge Wells : Mr. Borrer:' 7> 8, 



