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4. R. villdsa (L. em. Woods) ; prickles slender nearly straight, 
Its. ovate doubly serrate [usually] softly downy, sep. (fuite pei-- 
sistent slightly pinnate, fr. subglobose with no disk.— .ff. B. 
2459.— jB. mollis (Sm.). — [An erect bush with straight branches.] 
Fl. 1—3 deep rose colour [rarely white] ped. very short. Fr. 
bright red with connivent sep., ripe in Aug. [/3. en nJea (Woods); 
1. softer and greyer with very few glands on the petiole, ped. with very few glands 
or quite naked, fr. pendent. 7. B. pteudo-rnUginosa (Lej.) ; Its. nearly glabrous 
but very "landular beneath, ped. and cal.-tube densely aciculate.] Northern 
Counties. Sh. VI. Vll. E. S. I. 
5. R. tomentdsa (Sm.) ; prickles mostly uniform slender 
straight or slightly curved, Its. elliptic or subovate [usually] 
doubly serrate [and glandular and hairy or] downy especially 
beneath, sep. subpersistent copiously pinnate, fr. urceolate 
[or subglobose] with a slight disk [usually setose]. — E. B. 990— St. 
erect with arching branches. Fl. 1—3 [-10] pink or white ; 
ped. rather long. Fr. bright red, ripe in Sept. [The following 
are some of the principal forms described as British :—|3. iJ. ci/ierascfns (Dum.); 
Its. hairy on both sides simply serrate, fr. subglobose, styles hairy. 7- R- sub- 
sZo&usa (Sm.); Its. densely hairy almost eglandular irregularly or doubly serrate, 
fr. subglobose. 5. R. farinosa (Uau.) ; Its. densely grey-downy, somewhat 
glandular beneath, serration compound, fr. naked, styles woolly, e. E. cuspida- 
toides (Crep.); Its. broadly oval hairy glandular beneath, fr. subglobose, ped. and 
fr. aciculate, styles hairy, f. fu-tida (Ser.) ; Its. slightly hairy very glandular 
doubly serrate, styles glabrous, r). R. scabriuscula (Sm.); Its. almost glabrous 
above hairy principally on the veins beneath and sparsely glandular, fr. ovate 
aciculate, sep. reflexed. 6, Woodsiana (Groves) ; nearly allied to scabriuscula 
but Its. narrower with more compound serration, sep. decidedly erect persistent, 
styles hairy, i. sijU-estris (Woods); Its. naked above when mature thinly hairy 
and very glandular beneath, ped. and fr. densely aciculate and glandular, k, 
obocata (Bak.); prickles strongly curved slender. Its. obovate thinly hairy and 
eglandular beneath with very sharp double serration, ped. very short quite naked.) 
-Hedges and thickets. Sh. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
iii. RuBiC4iN0S^. [styles free.] Sep. subpersistent. St. sub- 
erect with scattered nearly uniform hooked prickles 
becoming more slender upwards [and sometimes also with 
smaller straight ones]. Lts. [usually 7] very glandular beneath. 
Fr. with a small disk. 
6. R. Eglanteria (L.) ; prickles many the larger hooked the 
smaller subulate unequal straight, Its. doubly serrate [thinly hairy 
and very glandular beneath], Sep. persistent COpioUsly pinnate, 
primordial fr. pear-shaped, disk very small. — E. B. 991. 
R. ricbiginosa (L.). — St. erect [or somewhat arching]. Fl. 1 — 4 rose- 
coloured, ped. [usually] very setose, styles hairy. Fr. sub- 
globose (except the first) ripe in Oct. Foliage scented. 
