98 26. ROSACEA. 



10. R. incurvatus (Bab.); st. angular, prickles strong patent 

 or declining, 1. 5-nate coriaceous shining above very soft and 

 grey beneath margins incurved and wavy, term. It. cordate-ovate 

 acuminate, pan. narrow compact leafy below with short patent 

 corymbose branches very hairy and tomentose at the top, prickles 

 strong but slender deflexed, fr.-sep. ovate-attenuate.— St. purple, 

 strong ; prickles purple, tip yellow. L. coated with thick strong 

 soft grey velvet beneath. Base of fl.-shoot hairy. Pet. elliptical, 

 pink. Styles flesh-coloured below. Primordial fr. hemispherical ; 

 torus ovate. — Heaths and open woods. Llanberis, N. Wales. 

 Milford, Pemb. Shrewsbury. Ambleside. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



1 1 . ii. rhamnif alius (W. and N.); s:f. angular furrowed, prickles 

 patent or declining, /. 5-nate coriaceous thick flat opaque above 

 grey tomentose beneath, term. It. ovate or cordate-cuspidate, 

 basal Its. stalked not imbricate, pan. pyramidal compact above 

 with distant axillary few-flowered racemose branches below to- 

 mentose, prickles strong declining. — E. B. 2604. R. G. 6. R. 

 cordifohus R. G. 5. — St. bright red. Prickles yellow or tipped 

 with red. L. with hard shining grey or nearly green tomentum 

 beneath, finely and equally serrate. Pet. roundish, white. Styles 

 greenish. Primordial ft. oblong, very large ; torus oblong ; 

 drupes many, black, dulUsh, rather flattened, insipid. — Hedges 

 and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. 



iv. Villieawles. St. pilose (hairs often deciduous), often stel- 

 lately downy (i. e. with very short stellate hairs, often ad- 

 pressed), with scattered subsessile or slightly stalked glands 

 or a very few setae. Prickles chiefly on the angles of the 

 stem, rarely » few scattered smaller ones. Basal leaflets 

 stalked and not imbricate (i. e. not overlapping the inter- 

 mediate pair). 



12. R. Grabowskii (Weihe); st. arched angular nearly glabrous 

 with a few hairs and subsessile glands on the young shoots, 

 prickles many neai-ly equal (a few smaller) declining from a long 

 base, 1. 5-nate opaque above ashy and downy beneath unequally 

 dentate, term. It. broadly cordate cuspidate on the fl.-shoot very 

 broad below, pan. long compound prickly leafy below, branches 

 ascending racemose-corymbose few lower axillary upper gradually 

 shorter, rachis hairy, prickles very large hooked, sep. hairy and 

 tomentose with sunken yellow setse and aciculi. — St. ultimately 

 lUii-ple, prickles on its end deflexed : I have not seen setae upon 

 it. — Cadeby, Leicestershire. Sh. VIII. E. 



13. R. thyrsoideus (Wimm.) ; st. angular furrowed subglabrous, 

 prickles declining or hooked from a long base, I. 5-nate coria- 

 ceous grey hairy and tomentose beneath, pan. long lax many, 

 lower branches axillary many-flowered, upper gradually shorter. 



