102 26. ROSACE. 
sides unequally dentate-serrate, term. It. acute or acuminate, pan. 
thyrsoid leafy with ascending usually few-flowered racemose 
branches, prickles few small slender straight declining, aciculi 
sete and hairs many unequal, rachis wavy.— Only slightly prickly. 
L. slightly pilose above, much beneath. Sep. retlexed.—a. 1. 
mostly 3-nate, term. It. broadly obovate acuminate, pan. long 
narrow much interrupted its top leafless, rachis wavy, bracts 
mostly simple. R. G.21.—8. R. thyrsiflorus (Weihe?) ; 1. mostly 
5-nate, term. lt. roundly cordate acute, pan. very long leafy al- 
most to the top with long distant axillary racemose branches, 
rachis slightly wavy, bracts mostly 3-fid. R.G.34.? This re- 
quires more examination. My R. humifusus is perhaps a young 
state of it—Thickets. @. Monmouth. Sh. VIII. E. 
34. R. hirtus (W. and N.); st. decumbent nearly round an- 
gular at the end, prickles small slender thick-based declining un- 
equal, hairs sete and slender aciculi many short nearly equal 
patent, 1. 5-nate-pedate or 3-nate green on both sides pilose above 
paler and hairy beneath dentate, pan. with a racemose naked top 
and many short axillary distant branches very hairy and setose, 
prickles long slender declining lower ones large-based.— R. G. 43. 
—St. densely covered with hairs and very unequal setz and aciculi. 
Term. lt. with a cordate base, obovate-cuspidate, finely dentate. 
Axillary branches of pan. racemose-corymbose, sometimes 0 and 
then the pan. is usually simple. Fr.-cal. patent or reflexed, to- 
mentose, setose, scarcely at all prickly.—8. R. Menkit (Weihe); 
term. lt. obovate-lanceolate coarsely doubly dentate-serrate, cal. 
prickly. R. G, 22.—y. R. foliosus (Weihe); st. more angular 
with fewer hairs and setee, term. lt. cordate acuminate, pan. leafy 
to the top, cal. slightly prickly. R. G. 28.—Thickets. 8. Ton- 
bridge Wells. y. Warwickshire. Sh. VIL. VIII. E. 8. 
35. R. glandulosus (Bell.); st. decumbent nearly round 
throughout, prickles small slender unequal large-based declining, 
acicul, setae and hairs rather many short nearly equal patent, /. 
3-nate or 5-nate-pedate green on both sides pilose above hairy 
beneath dentate-serrate, pan. with a racemose or corymbose naked 
top and several short axillary corymbose branches very hairy and 
setose, prickles slender declining some large-hased, fr.-cal. erect 
or patent.—L. scarcely paler beneath. Aciculi setae and hairs on 
st. less numerous and far less conspicuous than in R. hirtus. 
Prickles on lower part of fl.-shoot often deflexed.—a. R. Bellardi 
(Weihe) ; st. round, prickles small, hairs and sete rather many, 
term. it, elliptic cuspidate finely dentate-serrate, pan. slightly 
divided, its top and few long distant branches corymbose. R. G. 
44. E. B.S. 2883. A coarse state of this is my var. dentatus.— 
B. R. Lejeunii (Weihe) ; st. slightly angular sparingly hairy and 
setose, 1. with long silky hairs on both sides, term. It. ovate acu- 
minate, pan. spreading densely hairy with many short sunken 
