122 26. K0SACE2B, 



with few prickles. M. WaUhergii Bell-Salt. St. round at the 

 base, angular but flat-sided above. Pet. white or pink. — y, 

 purpuretis (Bab.); st. angular purple often alittle floccose, prickles 

 strong subpatent or deflexed from a long compressed Isase, Its. 

 pale-green- or white-felted beneath, term. It. roundly- or sub- 

 oordate-obovate, rachis rather wavy with many prickles. R. 

 Wahlbergii Arrh. St. round at the base, angular and often fur- 

 rowed above. Pet. white or pink. — Hedges and thickets. Sh. 

 VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 



44. JR. althceifdlius (Host) ; st. prostrate slightly angular with 

 scattered hairs and setse, prickles many unequal slender patent 

 from an oblong compressed base, 1. quinate or ternate. Us. cre- 

 nately lobed pale green with hairs on the veins loosely white- 

 felted beneath, hasal Its. of the ternate I. retrorsely hipartite of the 

 quinate I. sessile imbricate, term. It.rhomhoidahobovatesvAjCQ-^^s.te 

 below, pan. leafy its axillary branches and top racemose-corym- 

 bose with few very short setse, prickles on the middle of the 

 rachis longest slender, Sep. ovate-subacuminate setose loosely 

 adpressed to the (black-blue) fruit, pet. obovate, styles flesh- 

 coloured at their base. R. deltoideus Miill. ? — St. round at 

 the base, above bluntly angular or even furrowed. Pan. rather 

 long, open ; top formed of irregular corymbs of nearly simple 

 peduncles. Pet. nearly white. Pale stam. about equalling pink 

 styles.— Hedges. Sh. VI.— VIII. E. 



45. H. tubercuUtus (Bab.) ; st. arcuate-prostrate slightly 

 angidar with scattered short hairs and setse, prickles many un- 

 equal slender patent /toot an oblong tuberculiform base, 1. ternate 

 or quinate, Its. rather doubly dentate hairy on the veins beneath 

 green on both sides, basal Its. of the ternate 1. bilobate of the 

 quinate I. nearly sessile imbricate, term. It. roundly cordate sub- 

 cuspidate, pan. leafy its axillaiy branches racemose its top 

 corymbose, prickles from the middle to the top of the pan. ana 

 ped. slender and longest, sep. ovate acuminate aciculate setose 

 loosely adpressed to the fruit. — J. of B. viii. 1. 106. R. nemoro- 

 «!« S./«roxLeight. P^ohahlj R.teretiuseulus (KtHt.?). — St. very 

 bluntfy angular. Pan. short, its branches few-flowered. Pet. 

 pinkish. — -Mr. Warren combines my M. diversifolius and iJ. 

 Briggsii with this under the name of R. dumetorum. His R. 

 coneinnus is near R. corylifolius, but has not felted 1. on my au- 

 thentic specimen. It may be distinct. — ^Hedges. Sh. VII. 



vin. ^ E.I. 



46. R, cce'sius (L.) ; st prostrate terete glaucous, prickles 

 small unequal subulate declining or deflexed from a long com- 

 pressed base, 1. ternate or rarely piunate, Its. unequally cut or 

 coarsely serrate, term. It. ovate rhomboidal-ovate or 8-lobed, 



