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narrow lanceolate simple pinne of its sepals combined with uni- 
form prickles, small primordial fruit rounded at the base and de- 
ciduous sepals. Glands on under side of leaves numerous.— 
Hedges and thickets in the south. Sh. VII. VIII. E. I. 
+t Prickles various, intermixed with sete. 
13. R.rubiginosa (L.); prickles numerous the larger uncinate 
the smaller subulate, leaflets doubly serrate hairy glandulose 
beneath rounded at the base, sep. and pinne elongated persistent, 
primordial fruit pearshaped.—£. B. 991.—The various prickles, 
ersistent calyx and pearshaped primordial fruit distinguish this 
Font the preceding 2 with which it is very closely allied.—Bushy 
places. Sh. VI. VII. Sweet-Briar. 
14. R. sepium (Thuil.); prickles numerous the larger curved 
the smaller subulate, leaflets doubly serrated hairy glandular 
beneath acute at the base, sep. and pmne elongated narrow, pri- 
mordial fruit ovate rounded at the base.—E. B. S.2653.—Pinnze 
of the calyx small, narrowly lanceolate, springing nearly at right- 
angles from the sepals which have a linear-lanceolate limb.— 
Bridport, Warwickshire. Heyford, Oxfordshire. Sh. VI. E. 
*** Shoots mostly without sete, leaves without glands. 
+ Styles distinct, included, or nearly so. 
15. R. canina (L.); prickles uniform hooked, 1. naked or 
slightly hairy without glands the serratures simple or compound, 
sep. pinnate deciduous, styles distinct.—a. R. canina (Woods) ; 
leaflets naked keeled serratures simple. Leaflets narrowly ellip- 
tical, not rounded below, often with a twisted point, green or 
grey. E. B. 992.—8. R. sarmentacea (Woods); leaflets naked. 
keeled serratures compound. EF. B.S. 2595.—y,. R. surculosa 
(Woods) ; leaflets naked flat serratures simple. Leaflets roundish 
or elliptical with nregular serratures.—d. R. dumetorum (Woods) ; 
leaflets hairy on both sides flat. Terminal leaflets often nearly 
cordate. HE. B.S.2610.—e. R. Forsteri (Sm.); leaflets more or 
less hairy not flat. Leaflets concave or keeled, hairy on both 
sides or only beneath. E. B.S, 2611.—See Borrer’s detailed ac- 
count of this species in Hook, Br. Fl. ed. 3.— Hedges and thickets. 
Sh. VI. VII. Dog Rose. 
16. R. bractescens (Woods); “ calyx-tube globose, prickles 
hooked, leaflets simply serrated downy beneath, bracteas over- 
topping the fruit.” Woods.—Styles woolly. Fr. globose.—Ul- 
verston, Lancash.; Ambleside, Westm. Afr. Woods. Sh. E. 
17. R. cesia (Sm.); prickles uniform uncinate, leaflets doubly 
serrate downy without glands, sep. distantly and sparingly pin- 
nate, fr. elliptical smooth.—E. B. 2367.—Difficult to distinguish 
on paper from R. cantina but more resembling R. tomentosa in 
appearance.—In the north. Sh. VI. 
