114 26. EOSACEiE. 



roundly cordate or broadly obovate subeordate, pan. with slender 

 prickles, sep. (apparently) leaf-pointed. L. nearly glabrous 

 tjeneath. Term. It. very round. — Woods and thickets. 8h. 



VII. vin. E. s. I. 



c. Spectahiles. Stem with rather unequal prickles and 

 scattered aciculi and setse and usually dense pubescence. 



22. R. mucronuUtus (Bor.) ; st. arcuate suhterete patently pi- 

 lose, ^n'cifes few conical slender declining from an oblong dilated 

 base, 1. quinate. Its. thick finely dentate-sen-ate rough and pilose 

 above hairy only on the (reddish) veins beneath, term. It. broadly 

 obovate cuspidate cordate below, pan. narrow lax leafy hairy 

 setose felted its branches long 1 — 3-flowered its prickles small 

 slender declining, sep. ovate-attenuate hairy setose felted with 

 a linear point. — Sy. M. S. 451. M. mua-onatus Blox. (not Ser.). 

 — St. becoming nearly naked ; a few setss and aciculi. Pet. 

 pale pink. Pink stam. exceeding green styles. — R. festivus 

 (Warr.) seems to differ only by angular st. and much thinner 

 doubly dentate leaves. — Banks and hedges. Sh. VII. VIII. 



E. S. 



23. R. Sprengel'ii (Weihe) ; st. prostrate terete pilose, prioldes 

 unequal defiexed from a large compressed base, 1. 3 — 5-nat6 

 pedate. Its. thin green with scattered hairs only on the veins 

 beneath, term. It. elliptic-acuminate, pan. lax hairy felted setose 

 its axillary branches patent few-flowered the ultra-axillary di- 

 varicate its prickles few slender deflexed, sep. ovate-acuminate 

 erect-patent often leaf-pointed. — o. R. Rorreri (Bell-Salt.) ; st. 

 arcuate-prostrate thick with scattered aciculi and setse, prickles 

 unequal, 1. usually quinate, pan. rather thyrsoid or with a sub- 

 corymbose top, duU stam. falling short of styles. — R, riibicolor 

 (Blox.) seems an extreme form of this. — /3. R. Sprengelii 

 (Weihe) ; st. usually quite prostrate slender, prickles small, 

 aciculi and setse very few, 1. usually ternate. Its. flexible, pan. 

 lax few-flowered pyramidally subcorymbose ; rose-coloured 

 stam. exceeding styles. R. G. 10. — Heaths and woods. Sh. 

 VI. VII. E. 



d. Radults. Stem rough with small elevated rigid points 

 on which the deciduous setse and aciculi were seated ; 

 prickles nearly equal. 



24. R. Bloxdmii (Lees) ; st. arcuate-prostrate angular slightly 

 iaaoyredi, prickles stnall subpatent unequal, aciculi and setae short 

 many, hairs many, 1.5- or3-nate. Us. coarsely iouhly dent ate yreen 

 and pilose on both sides, term. It. roundly obovate cuspidate, pan. 

 long leafy to the top felted its short branches and top corymbose its 

 prickles slender declining, sep. ovate-acuminate loosely reflexed 



