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26. EOSACEiE. 
prostrate unless supported, often nearly glabrous and glaucous. 
Lts. usually hairless but with fine hard felt beneath, usually 
with decurved edges. Pet. pink. Fr. of many small acid drupes. 
—Hedges and thickets. Common. Sh. VII. \TII. E. S. I. 
13. H. tht/rsouleiis (Wimm.); st. eree^-arwa^e angular furrowed 
siibglabroti-s, prickles declining or deflexed from a much-dilated 
compressed base, 1. quinate, Us. flat rather coriaceous glabrous 
above hairy and gremish-ichite-felted beneath, term. It. cordate- 
ovate-acuminate, pan. long narrow its lower branches many 
axillary few-flowered its prickles strong hooked, cal. hairy aiid 
felted. — R. fruticosus R. G. 7. — St. arching highly, self-sup- 
porting. Lts. wavy and a little turned up at the edge, hairy 
and softly but often finely felted beneath. Pet. white. Fr. of 
rather few subacid drupes. — Hedges and thickets. Sh. VHL 
VIII. E. I. 
b. Sylvatici. Stem with moderate mostly equal prickles 
and (often dense) haiiy-wooUy patent (often deciduous) 
pubescence. Leaves usually green but sometimes white- 
felted beneath. 
14. R. lencos'tachys (Sm.); st. arcuate-prostrate angnlaT hmry 
woolly and felted, prickles many subpatent slender from a dilated 
compressed base, 1. qvunatej Its. flat hairy and shining and softly 
yelloicish or whitcly 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, pricldes mostly on the angles of the stem 
equal, Its. coriaceous obovate sublobate-serrate yellowish-whitely 
felted and shining beneath. E. B. S. 2631. St. nearly pro- 
strate, covered with loose spreading clustered haii-s. Pan. very 
narrow, long. Pet. pinkish. Fr. purplish black. — ff. R. restitm 
(Weihe) ; st. arcuate, prickles imequal scattered, Its. cordate- 
roundish cuspidate irregidarly dentate pale green beneath. R. G. 
.33. St. often nearly round and bearing a few acicidi and setse. 
Lts. rather tiin. — fledges, thickets and woods. Sh. \'n. VIH. 
15. R. Grabows'kii (Weihe) ; st. arcuate angul&r subglabrous, 
])rickles many equal declining or deflexed much dilated and com- 
pressed below, 1. quinate, Its. plicate opaque and glabrous above 
tishy-feltcd beneath irregularlv dentate imbricate, term. It. cordate 
abruptly cuspidate (on the fi. -shoot much dilated below), pan. 
long lealy below its branches ascending racemose-corymbose its 
prickles many deflexed, cal. ashy-tomentose and hairy. — R. car- 
pinifolius -B. B. S. 2604? — St. with a few often clustered hairs. 
E. I. 
sparingly produced. — Hedges 
E. 
