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pinnate and persistent. — T.ocal ; uncommon. — Fl, June. 

 Perennial. 



9. /i. obtusifilia (Rlunt-leaved Rose). — .\ large bush with 

 long, arching, glabrous branches, and large hooked prickles ; 

 leaflets doubly serrate, broadly rounded at the base, glandular and 

 with prominent veins beneath ; flmeers \<hite or pale pink, gen- 

 erally with smooth stalks ; sepals reflexed and deciduous ; and 

 /)-//// small, sub-globose. These forms, not \e'ry sharply separated 

 horn the following, seem to be local. 



10. R. canina (Uog-Rose). — Large bushes with long arched 

 branches with uniform hooked prickles ; leaflets mostly without 

 glands, or with a few on the veins beneath ; flowers few together 

 or solitary, generally on smooth stalks ; sefals pii uate, reflexed, 

 falling before the fruit changes colour ; styles' free. — Hedges and 

 bushy places ; abundant. This is the common Hedge Rose, a 

 flower belonging exclusively to summer, and W'elcomed at its first 

 appearance scarcely less warmly than the early Primrose in 

 spring. The colour of the flower vaiies fro|Ti white to a deep 

 blush, and the leaves also difler considerably; but the abo\e 

 characters will be found to include all the prn'icipal varieties. — Fl. 

 June, July. Perennial. 



11. R. ^^lauca (Glaucous Rose), a group more locally repre- 

 sented, differs in ha\ing its leaflets often glaucous, and not gland- 

 ular beneath, and its sefals ascending after the fall of the petals, 

 and not falling until after the fruit has become crimson. 



12. R. stylosa (Close-styled Rose). — A tall, erect bush with 

 uniform, stout, strongly-hooked prickles ; leaflets eglandular, 

 pubescent beneath ; fed uncle s\or\g^ bristly ; i-c/ivA pinnate, reflexed, 

 deciduous ; styles united into a central column. — Uncommon. — 

 Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



13. R. arvensis (Trailing Rose). — A glabrous, trailing species 

 with purple branches; leaflets glaucous beneath; flowers white; 

 .((/tz/.f purple, slightly pinna' e, reflexed, deciduous; i-/)7t'.f united 

 in an exserted column ; fruit sub-globose, small. — \^'oods and 

 hedges ; common in the south of England. ^Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



15. Pykus (Service, Pear, Apple, Jsledlar, and Rowan). — 

 Trees and shrubs ; leaves deciduous, simple or pinnate ; stipules 

 deciduous ; flowers in terminal cymes ; ealyx-cuhe urceolate ; 

 sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stame/is many ; carpels 2^5, imbedded in the 

 cal3'x-tube, 3-ovuIed ; fruit a 2 — 5-chamberedi pome ; core brittle, 

 horny or bony ; chambers i — 2-seeded. (Kame classical.) 



I. F, tormindlis (Wild Service Tree). — A sniall tree with downy 



