124 26. liOsACE^. 



boae-urceolate setose.— -E. B. 2608 and (fr.) 2601.— Fr. dark 

 led. Dwarf. — Hebrides and Western Highlands. Sh. VI. S; 



6. R. Sabini (Woods) ; prickles scattered unequal straight or 

 nearly so, setse, few, leaflets doubly serrate hairy glandular be- 

 neath, Sep. nearly, as long as the cor. someiohat pinnate slightly 

 leaflike, fr. globose or shghtly urceolate setose. — E. B. S. 2594. 

 -T-Fr. dark red, — /3. B. B.oniana (Woods) ; prickles more nume- 

 rous, 1. very hairy, cal. alinost simple. E. B. S. 2601. — y. B. 

 qracilis (Woods) ; larger prickles falcate, cal.- almost simple. 

 'E. B. 683 (fig. only).— Mostly in the North. Sh. VI. E. S. I. 



• * Shoots mostly without seta, leaves glandular especially beneath. 



t Piiekles nearly uniform, setse few or none. 



\_Vill6s(e. St. tall, suberect, with nearly uniform nearly straight 

 prickles. L. with resinous glands beneath.] 



7. B. villdsa (L.) ; prickles uniform nearly straight, leaflets 

 doubly serrate downy, sep. slightly pinnate,. Toot-shooia straight, 

 — E. B. 2459.^<Sep. persistent, usually connivent on the oval or 

 nearly globose /rwi'i!. — Northern coimties. Sh. VI. VH. E. S. I. 



8. B. toment6sa (Sm.) ; prickles mostly uniform straight or 

 curved, leaflets, doubly serrate downy, sep. • copiously pinnate. — 

 E. B. 990 and 1896. — Koot-shoots (ramuli) straight or arched. 

 Sep. persistent, usually spreading on tte oblong or urceolate /ri^i. 

 ^'ery variable. — Hedges' and thickets. Sh. VI. VH. E. S. I. 



\Bubigin6see. Prickles hooked, nearlj'^'uniform. L. with more 

 or'Iess setas and viscous usually fragrant glands beneath.] 



9. -R. inoddra (Fries) ; prickles uniform hooked, leaflets doubly 

 serrate hairy, sep. closely pinnate mostly deciduous, ramuli without 

 setse, fr. oval or nearly globular.^ — E. B. 2579. — ^L. sparingly 

 glandular, sometimes with' more numerous glands, and then the 

 sep. are long and persistent. Sep. short wath a short leaflike 

 point and closely-set shortly-lanceolate often compound pinnae. 

 —Hedges and thickets. Sh. VI. VII. E. S. 



10. B. micran'tha (Sm.) ;' prickles uniform hooked, leaflets 

 doubly serrate hairy, sep: and pitines elongated deciduous, ramuli 

 sparingly setose, fr. small oval and ovate. — E. B. 2490. — Di- 

 stinguished by the long leaflike point and narrow lanceolate 

 .simple pinnae of its sepals combined with uniform prickles, small 

 primordial fruit rounded at the base and deciduous sepals. 

 Glands' on underside of leaves many. — Hedges and thickets in 

 the South. Sh. VII. VIII. E.I. 



tt Prickles various, intermixed with setse. 



