106 26. ROSACEiE. 



with large bases, 1. 3-nate or 5-nate- pedate green and pilose on 

 both sides paler and more hairy beneath doubly dentate, term. 

 It. obovate cuspidate or acuminate subcordate below, pan. sub- 

 pyramidal tomentose leafy below, branches divaricate racemose- 

 corymbose, prickles small declining or deflexed large-based, 

 setfe nearly equal shorter than the hairs, sep. setose and prickly 

 loosely refiexed. — R. G. 32. — R. Babingtonii Bell-Salt. ! ' Rarely 

 the St. is furrowed. Shape of Its. variable. — Woods. Widely 

 distributed but not common. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



vi. CtBsii. St. round or bluntly angular with few, or no, hairs 

 setae or glands and usually a glaucous bloom. Prickles 

 usually unequal ^. 



35. JR. Balfourianus (Blox.) ; st. arched roundish or bluntly 

 angular with scattered patent hairs and a few acicuh and setae 

 or subsessile glands, pnciZes rather unequal slender conical sub- 

 patent, I. 5-nate green on both sides pilose above downy beneath 

 dentate-serrate, term. It. cordate or ovate acute, basal Its. sub- 

 sessile imbricate (?), pan. lax leafy hairy tomentose setose with 

 long distant axillai-y spreading few-flowered racemose-corymbose 

 branches, sep. ovate-attenuate with a long point, fr.-cal. erect 

 patent, fr. depressed. — St. with few rarely many prickles. Pan. 

 often very thinly tomentose setose and hairy. Sep. often leaf- 

 pointed, prickly, setose. St. not floccose with few or no aciculi 

 or setae, pan. very broad lax and corymbose. Subglabrous {R. 

 Balfourianus Blox.) ; or, st. with scattered short nearly equal aci- 

 culi and setae, pan. closer and longer {R. tenuiarmatus Lees). 

 The extremes of these plants are very different, but there appear 

 to be connecting forms. — ^Woods and hedges. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 



36. R. corylifolius (Sm.) ; st. prostrate or arched nearly round 

 throughout or bluntly angular upwards nearly or quite glabrous 

 or with a few aciculi and sette or subsessile glands, prickles 

 straight mostly equal, 1. 5-nate pale and soft beneath, term. It. 

 roundly ovate or cordate pointed, basal Us. subsessile imbricate, 

 pan. and branches subcoryrabose, sep. ovate reflexed, styles green- 

 ish, torus oblong stalked. — St. slightly glaucous. Pan. usually 

 with 2 or 3 long axillary branches, closely tomentose, top with 

 more or less prominent setae. — a. R. sublustris (Lees); st. round 

 green, prickles slender from a small base patent, 1. whitish-to- 

 mentose beneath coarsely toothed, term. It. usually lobed roundish- 



1 The plants formerly included under the name of R. Babingtonii 

 are now referred respectively to R. scaber, R. pyramidalis and R.fusco- 

 ater /3. Colemanni. 



2 The plants contained in the section are far from being determined 

 •atisfactorily. R. Tl'ahlbergi (Bab. not Arrh.) is now placed partly 

 under R. corylifolius and partly under R. nemoroms. 



