126 26. EosACB^. 



short, lower joint of the style longer than the hairy upper joint, 

 radical 1. interruptedly pinnate and lyrate, stem-l. 3-lobed, 

 stipules round toothed.— -Sy. JE. B. 458.— St. 1—2 feet high. 

 Fl. larger than in Sp. 1, less than in Sp. 2, yellow, calyx pur- 

 plish. Upper joint of style clothed with long hairs but with a 

 rather long glabrous point. Perhaps a hybrid; or rather it 

 consists of extreme forms of Sp. 1 and 2.— Damp woods. 

 P. VI. VII.] E. S. 



2. G. rivdle (L.) ; fl. nodding, pet. broadly obovate emargi- 

 nate or obcordate with a long wedgeshaped claw, cal. of the 

 fruit erect, carpophore long, lower joint of the style equalling the 

 long hairy upper joint, radical 1. interruptedly pinnate and lyrate, 

 stein-l. ternate, stip. small ovate toothed. — E. B. 106. 8t. 3. — 

 St. about 1 foot high. Fl. large, purplish brown with darker 

 veins, calyx purpKsh. Carpophore nearly equalling^ the calyz. 

 Upper joint of the style with a short glabrous point. — Damp 

 woods. P. VI. VII. Water-Avem. E. S. I. 



Tribe IV. Rosidce. 



14. Eo'sA lAnn} Rose. 



i. Spinosissim^. Styles free, scarcely protruding. Sep. mostly 

 persistent. St. short, ,erect, with many slender unequal 

 prickles lessening gradually into aciculi and setas. 



1. R. spinosis'sima (L.) ; prickles many crowded very unequal 

 mostly straight subulate smallest undistinguishable from aciculi. 

 Its. simply serrate glabrous and glandless on both sides, sep. simple 

 acuminate not glandular on the back, fr. nearly globular erect 

 with no disk. — -E. B. 187. — St. erect with short compact 

 branches. Fl. solitary, white. Fr. dark purple or black, ripe 

 in September. — Sandy heaths and sea-shore. Sh. V. E.S.I. 



2. -ffi. hiher'nica (Sm.) ; prickles scattered unequal gradually 

 passing into aciculi, the larger strong shghtly falcate. Its. sim- 

 ply serrate naked or hairy on the veins beneath without glands, 

 Sep. pinnate not glandular on the back, fr. roundish with a small 

 disk. — E. B. 2196. — St. erect ; branches mostly short. Fl. 1 — 3 

 rarely more together, pale pink ; ped. and cal.-tube quite naked. 

 Fr. rather urceolate, blood-red, Vfith subpersistent sepals, ripe in 

 October.— Chiefly in the north. Sh. V.— VIII. E. S. I. 



' For fuller details oonoernitig the varieties and states of Eoaes see 

 Baker in lAnn. Jowrn. xi. 197. See also Bull. Soc. Belg. xv. 202 &o. 

 Seta, see note, p. 106. We want a. thorough monograph of this 

 genus. 



