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1. very hairy, cal. almost simple. E. B. S.2G0\. — y. gracilis 
(lloiT.); larger prickles falcate, cal. almost simple. E.B.3S3 
(lig. only). — Mostly in the north. Sh. VI. 
** Shoots mostly without seta;, leaves glandulose. 
t Prickles nearly uniform, setae few or none. 
9. R. villosa (L.) ; j)rickles nniform nearly straight, leaflets 
(lonhly serrated downy glamhdar, sep. slightly pinnate, root- 
shoots straight. — E. B. 2459. — Sep. peisistent, usually connivent 
on the elliptical or nearly globose fruit. — Northern counties. 
Sh. VI. Vll. 
10. R. tomentosa (Sin.); jirickles mostly uniform straight or 
curved, leaflets douhly serrated downy glandular, sep. copiously 
pinnate. — E. B. 990 and 189(i. — Root-shoots straight or arched. 
Sep. persistent, usually spreading on the oblong or urceolate fruit. 
\ very variable plant. — Hedges and thickets. Sh. VI. VII. 
11. R. inodora (Fries); prickles uniform uncinate, leaflets 
douhly serrated hairy glandular beneath, sep. closely pinnate 
mostly deciduous, ramuli without setae, fr. ellijitical or nearly 
globular. — 2?. B. 2579. — L. sparingly glandular, sometimes with 
more numerous glands, and then the sep. are elongated and 
))ersistent. Sep. short with a short leafy jioint and closely-set 
shortly-lanceolate often eompound pinnaj.— Hedges and thickets. 
Sh. VI. VII. E. I. 
12. R. micrantha (Sm.); jirickles uniform uneinate, leaflets 
douhly serrated hairy glandular beneath, sej). and pinnee elongated 
deciduous, ramuli sparingly setigerous, fr. small elliptieal and 
ovate. — E. B. 2490. — Distinguished by its sepals with a long 
leafy jioint and narrow laneeolate simjile pinnae from the last, 
and by its uniform prickles, its small fruit (primordial) rounded 
at the base and deciduous sepals from the following. Glands 
on the under side of the leaves numerous. — Hedges and thickets 
in the south. Sh. VII. VIII. E. I. 
tt Priekles various, intermixed with setae. 
13. R. ruhiginosa (L.) ; prickles numerous the larger uncinate 
the smaller subulate, leaflets doubly serrate hairy glandulose 
beneath rounded at the base, sep. and pinna elongated persistent, 
primordial fruit pearshaped. — if. jB. 991. — The various prickles, 
])ersisteut calyx and jiearshajied (primordial) fruit distinguish 
this from the 2 last with which it is very closely allied and has 
been combined by Lindley and Fries. — Bushy places. Sh. VI. 
VII. Sweet-Briar. 
14. R. sepium (Thud.); prickles numerous the larger eurved 
the smaller subulate, leaflets doubly serrated hairy glandular 
