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27. ROSACE.E. 
**** Stems arched or prostrate, rooting, angular, hairy, setose. 
t Stems rough with the rigid bases of the acieuli and seta:. 
Priekles rather unequal, chietly eoniiiied to the angles of 
the stem. 
20. R. Bahingfonii (Bell Salt.) ; st. arched terete but sulcate 
rough glabrous (?), priekles stout short declining, seta: and aci- 
cuh numerous short rigid, 1. mostly ternute crenate-dentate-mu- 
cronate pilose find ojfaque above downy and pale green beneath, 
lead, shortly obovate abrujitly cuspidate, jianicle long leafy downy 
jirickly setose with ascending branches. — Bell Salt, in A. N. H. 
XV. 307. — A very large plant. Panicle more than 2 ft. long ; 
jmbescence dingy ; doral 1. very large, simple or ternate. Cal. 
setose. Fr. small. Barren st. not angular ; acieuli and setic 
short but very thick and strong. — /3. Bloxamii ; st. angular w'ith 
dat sides, priekles small, acieuli and setae very short, branches of 
the panicle short few-dowered corymbose. — Selborne, Hants. 
S- In a lane by Ilartshill Wood, Warwickshire. Rev. A. Bloxam. 
Sh. VII. ■ E. 
21. R. rudis (Weihe) ; st. arched or jfrostrate slightly fur- 
rowed rough, prickles nearly equal strong declining mostly con- 
dned to the angles of the stem much longer than the equal 
acieuli setfc anil hairs, 1. 5-nate doubly and coarsely serrate 
white beneath, panicle long leafy naked at the end with ascend- 
ing corymbose branches, sejj. lanceolate jiriekly setose strongly 
rejlexed from the fruit. — St. dark fuscous ; jirickles not passing 
into acieuli and setfe. Panicle much branched ; rachis usually 
very setose. Sej). mostly with a leadike point, clothed with 
dark setfE. — a. rudis ; lead, obovate-lanceolate. R. G. 40. R. 
Radula Leight.var. y. Bab. ed. 1. — /3. Leightonii ; lead, roundish- 
obovate abnqitly cusjiidate rather thinner. R. Leightoni Lees. 
— y. Reich enb acini-, lead, nearly round, st. hairy with very few 
acieuli and setfe. R. G. 37- — S. denticulatus -, lead, quadran- 
gular-obovate cuspidate cordate below with broad but very 
shallow' teeth and denticulate. A. N. H. xix. 8/. A very curious 
plant. L. broadly and obscurely dentate instead of deeply serrate; 
their whole margin denticulate. Panicle that of typical R. rudis. 
— e. attenuatus; lead, obovate with a long tajiering point pale 
green beneath. R. echinatus Bab. ed. 1 . not Lindl. — Hedges in the 
south. 0. Shropshire, y. Isle of Wight. 8. Loxley near Sheffield. 
Rev. W. W. Newbould. e. Somerset. Shropshire. Leicestershire. 
Sh. VII. E. 
22. R. Radula (Weihe) ; st. arched or prostrate angular 
rough, prickles unequal slender from a thick base declining not 
confined to the angles of the stem mostly much longer than the 
unequal acieuli setfc and hairs, 1. 5-nate unequally and finely 
