Ruhus,'] 



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Plant with the habit of the last species. When the leaves are ternate, 

 the leaflets are lobed as in R. ccesius. Petals small, white. 



19. E. glandulosus Bellardi {glandulose or Bellardi^s B,) ; 

 stem hairy setose, prickles unequal, leaves mostly ternate, 

 leaflets oval cuspidate strongly veined beneath, panicle bracts 

 and sepals very setose. — a. Bellardi; stena round, prickles 

 small, set£e abundant, leaflets finely and equally serrate. E. 



glandulosus Borr. : E. B, S. t. 2883. 



W. 



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E. 



fS, Lejeunii; plant less setose, leaves unequally serrate. 



y. rosaceiis ; stem angular, laro^er prickles 



E. rosaceus W, and N. — 



uncinate, leaflets coarsely serrate. 

 Lj)allidus; leaflets usually 5 narrow. E. 



Woods and thickets, not frequent, 7 — 9. 

 Leaflets pale green above, tawny-pale with pink veins beneath. 

 florescence with a mossy covering of red glands and setee. 

 leaf-pointed. Petals rose-coloured. 



Uidus W. and N.? 



Stems reddish -green. 



In- 

 Sepals often 



(See 9. R. Sprengelii j8,) 



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Panicle large. 



roup vn. CiESii Lindl. Stems glaucous with few hairs and 

 set(B ; fruit of few drupes, glaucous. (Fruit blue or bluish.) 



20. E. Wahlhergii Arrh, (Wahlherg's l)ewherry or B.); 

 ste 11 with a few hairs and glands and numerous thick-based 

 prickles, leaves pedate-quinate, leaflets overlapping pubescent 

 rugose, panicle leafy tomenlose with numerous falcate prickles, 

 sepals patent ovate tomentose and glandular. — ft. glahratus ; 

 plant nearly without seta?. E. Grabowskii Weihe? Bab. 



Hedges, rare. 6, 7. — Stem very prickly, pinkish-green. Leaflets 

 thick and soft, liglit green above, pubescent and pale beneath. 



Petals bright rose-coloured, i^rw^j! often abortive and, 

 according to Bloxam, '* remarkably hairy," 



21. E. nemorosus Hayne (larger Dewherrtf) ; stem procum- 

 bent, leaves quinate, leaflets ovate-cordate acuminate pubescent 

 overlapping, calyx setose, sepals ovate acute : Bab. E, du- 

 metorum W. et N. ; Lindl E. csesius /3. Borr. 



Thickets, not unfrequent. 6, 7. — Intermediate between R. 

 Wahlhergii and R. ccesius, from the latter of which, though scarcely 

 distinct, it is distinguished by the quinate leaves. Petals rose-coloured. 

 Fruit glaucous, black, 



22. E. cm^sius L. (Dewberry)-^ stem weak, prickles unequal 

 passing by gradation into hairs and setae, leaves ternate, leaflets 

 oval acuminate, lateral pair lobed externally, calyx setose, 

 sepals ovate lanceolate cuspidate. E. B. t. 826 ; W. and N. 

 ft'pseudo-c^sius; leaflets all lobed, fruit mostly abortive. 



W. and N. — y. tenuis ; nearly destitute of hairs and sette. E. 



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