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27. ROSACEA. 
niinate doubly dentate white silky and shining beneath, prickles 
on st. and panicle very large, lower branches of panicle elongated 
erect-])atent. R. villicaulis |3. Bab. ed. 1. — Hedges and thickets. 
/3. in shady jdaces. -y. Channel Islands. Sussex. Isle of Wight. 
Sh. VII. VIII. E. I. 
13. R. sylvaticus (W. and N.) ; st. arched slightly angular 
patently hairy, prickles rather unequal slender straight, 1. 5-nate 
soft shining and pale green beneath, leaf, cordate-ovate pointed, 
panicle compound leafy with short branches. — R. G. 15. R. villi- 
caulis y. Bab. ed. I . — St. long, not furrowed, often nearly round ; 
pubescence of shining patent hairs. Prickles moderate, rather 
numerous, declining, hairy at the base, not quite confined to the 
angles of the st. ; on the fl. -shoot and panicle short and slender. 
Leaf, serrate, thick, usually tinged with purple on the veins be- 
neath.- — j3. villicaulis-, leafl. oval or roundish cuspidate, ])anicle 
with more and longer branches and stronger prickles, st. with 
more equal and fewer prickles. R. G. 17. — Rather rare. Bath. 
Killarney. Loch Eil. Linlithgow. j3. Isle of Wight. Dorset. 
Sh. VII. VIII. 
14. R. Balfourianus ; st. arched terete patently hairy, j)rickles 
slightlv unequal slender straight scarcely declining, 1. 5-nate soft 
and pale green beneath, leafl. cordate or ovate acute, lower pair 
nearly sessile overlapping the interm, pair, panicle corymbose- 
diffuse downy, bracts leaflike trifid, sep. ovate-lanceolate downy 
setose erect-patent with a leaflike or filiform attenuated ]>oint. — 
A. N. H. xix. 86. — St. and its pubescence and prickles hke those 
of R. sylvaticus. Panicle usually lax or difiruse. Cal. erect or 
clasping the hemisjdierical fruit. — Near Rugby, Leicestershire. 
Rev. A. Bloxam. Sh. VIII.? E. 
15. R. Borreri (Bell Salt.); st. procumbent terete hmry , prickles 
numerous unequal long slender deflexed, 1. 5-nate hairy and deep 
green beneath, leafl. broadly obovate-lanceolate cuspidate, panicle 
corymbose its lower brandies long and decomjiound, cal. of tbe 
hemispberical fr. erect-patent. — Bell Salt, in A. N. H. xv. 306. — 
St. mostly quite prostrate, very jirickly ; pubescence of patent 
hairs. Prickles not confined to the angles of the stem ; on the 
hairy fl. -shoot and jianicle few and slender. L. the same colour 
on iioth sides. Terminal flow'er usually nearly sessile. Sep. 
linear-lanceolate. — “ /3. Wilsoni ; a few' aciculi on st., jirickles 
broad at the base.” — Isle of Wight. Near Rugby. Rev. A. 
Bloxam. “ /3. Buglawton, Cheshire. Mr. S. E. B ilson.” Sh. 
VI. E. 
16. R. Sprengelii (We\he) -, st. procumbent terete with scat- 
tered hairs, jirickles hooked, 1. ternate, leafl. obovate acuminate, 
panicle with divaricate few-flowered branches tomentose, sep. 
