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and softly but often finely felted beneath. Pet. white. Fil. 
white ; anth. rather fuscous. Drupes few, subacid. — Hedges 
and thickets. Sh. VII. VIII. E. I. 
b. Sylvatici. Stem with moderate mostly equal prickles 
and (often dense) hairy-woolly patent (but often deci- 
duous) pubescence. Leaves usually green but sometimes 
white-felted beneath. 
14. R. leucdstachys (Sm.) ; st. arcuate-prostrate angular hairy 
woolly and felted,pricklesmany subpatent slenderfrom a dilated 
compressed base, 1. quinate. Its. flat hairy and shining and softly 
yellowish or whitely felted beneath, term. It. obovate ovate or 
roundish cuspidate, pan. long narrow felted hairy setose its 
branches short few-flowered its prickles slender declining or 
angularly deflexed, cal. green-felted hairy setose aciculate — a ; 
st. arcuate-prostrate, prickles mostly on the angles of the stem 
equal, Its. coriaceous obovate sublobate-serrate yellowish-white- 
felted and shining beneath. — E. B. S. 2631. — St. nearly pros- 
trate, covered with loose spreading clustered hairs. Pan. very 
narrow, long. Pet. pinkish. Stam. with pink base upright, 
exceeding the pink-based styles. Fr. purplish black. — j3. R. ves- 
titns (Weihe) ; st. arcuate, prickles unequal scattered. Its. cor- 
date-roundish cuspidate irregularly dentate pale green beneath. 
R. G. 33. St. often nearly round and bearing a few aciculi and 
setai. Lts. rather thin. — Hedges, thickets and woods. Sh. 
VII. VIII. ' E. I. 
15. R. hirtifdlius (Miill.) ; st. arcuate-prostrate angular 
pilose, prickles nearly equal small declining from a dilated com- 
pressed base, 1. quinate. Us. A&tpale yreen andjnlose only on the. 
veins beneath, term. It. obovate acuminate, panicle narrowly pyra- 
midal its branches few-flowered its prickles few slender, sepals 
greenish felted and with pale edges externally, stam. exceeding 
the styles. — Pan. -branches often 1-fl. Sep. ovate, leaf -pointed. 
— R. pyramidalis Kaltenb. ? — Bushy and heathy places. Near 
Plymouth. Isle of Wight. Sh. VII. VIII. E. 
16. R. Grahows'kii (Weihe) ; st. arcuate a,ng\Aa,x sicbglabrous, 
prickles many equal declining or deflexed much dilated and 
compressed below, 1. quinate, Its. plicate opaque and glabrous 
above ashy-felted beneath irregularly dentate imbricate, term. It. 
cor Ja<e abruptly cuspidate (on the fl. -shoot much dilated below), 
pan. long leafy below its branches ascending racemose-corym- 
bose its prickles many deflexed, cal. ashy-felted and hairy. — R. 
carpinifolius Borr. E. B. ,i. 2664 ? R. montanus Focke. — St. with 
