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13. H. thprsoideys (Wunra.) ; st. erect-arcuate angular, fur- 

 rowed suhglahrous, prickles declining or deflexed jErona a, mucli- 

 dilated compressed base, 1. quinate, ife. flat rather coriaceous 

 glabrous above hairy and greenish-white-ffitted beneath, term. It. 

 cordate-ovate-acuminate, pan. long narrow its lower branches 

 many axillary few-flowered its prickles strong booked, c«?. hairy 

 and felted.— R. fi-uticosus H. G. 7.— St. arching highly, self- 

 supportingi Lts. wavy and a little turned up at the edge, haiiry 

 and softly but often finely felted beneath. Pel;, white. . Fr. of 

 rather few subacid drupes. — Hedges and thickets. Sh. Vll. 

 VIII. ■ E.I. 



b. Syliiatid. Stem with moderate mostly equal prickles 

 and (often dense) hairy-woolly patent '(often deciduous) 

 pubescence. Leaves usually green; but sometimes white- 

 felted beneath.' • 



. 14. iJ. leucdstachys (Sm.) ; St. arcuate-prostrate angular , hairy 

 «uoo% and felted, prickles many subpatejiili slender from a dilated 

 compressed base, 1. quinate, Its. flat hairy and shining and softly 

 yeUouaah or whitely felted beneath, term., It. obovate ovate or 

 roimdish cuspid:ate,,^are.. long narrow felted hairy setose its 

 branches shoi;t few-flowered its prickles slender declining , or 

 angularly deflexed, cal, green-felted hairy setose aciculate. — a. ; 

 st. arcuate-prosltrate, prickles mostly, on the angles of the stem 

 equal. Its. coriaceous obovate sublobate-serrateyeUowish-whitely 

 felted and shining beneath. K S., S. 2631i St. nearly pro- 

 strate, covered Virith loose spreading clustered hairs. Pan. very 

 narrow, long. - Pet. pinkish. Fr. purplish blapk. — /3. -ffi. vestitics 



( VVei^e) ; st. arcuate, prickles unequal scattered, Its. cordate- 

 roundish cuspidate irregularly dentate pale greep beneath. -H. G. 

 33. St. often nearly round and bearing a few aciculi and setse. 

 Lts. ratter thin. — Hedges, thickets and woods. Sh. VII. VIH. 



E. L 



15. JR. Grabows'hii (Weihe) ; M. arcuate angular siihglabrovgf 

 prickles many equal declining or defined much dilated and 

 compressed below, 1. quinate, Z<s. plicate, opaque and glabrous 

 above ashy-felted hmeath irregularly dentjite imbricate,, term. It. 

 cordate abruptly cuspidate (on the fl. -shoot niueh dilated below), 

 pan. long leafy below its 'branches ascending racemose-corym- 

 bose its prickles many, deflexed, caL ashy-felted and hairy.— -R. 

 carpinifplius E. B. S. 2664 ? — St. with a few often, clustered 

 hairs. ; Pan. hairy but not felted. Fr. sparingly produced.— f 

 Hedges and thickets. Sh. VIL VIIL , . , . E. 



, 16. R. CohmarCni (Blox;.) ; st. arcuate angular subglabrous^ 

 prickles many nearly equal declining compressed alid-dilatM> 



