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compressed base, 1. qninate, Its. thin dentate-serrate pale green 
and shming and often densely hairy but the hairs only on the 
veins beneath, term. It. obovate or roundly cordate-obovate sub- 
acuminate, pan. open compound leafy hairy setose felted its 
branches cor_\Tnbose its prickles slender declining or deflexed, 
sep. hairy setose acicidate loosely refleied from the frait. — R. G. 
17. H. viUicaulis and R. jmmpinosm Bab. — St. becojuing nearly 
naked, rareh' a few setje and aciculi. The R. vuif/aris (Lindl.) 
is a foiTU of this species with more aciculi and sti-ong deciduous- 
headed setse on its stem. — Woods and hedges. Sh. VIII. 
E. S. I. 
20. R. yymcrophijl'lus (Weihe) ; st. arcuate-prostrate angular 
patently pilose, prickles short slender conical-compressed de- 
clining from a large dilated compressed base, 1. qiunate, Us. 
doubly and patenthj dentate or irregularly dentate-seirate pilose 
above pale green felted or velvety or hairy only on the veins 
beneath, term. It. elliptic or roimdly obovate or obovate cuspi- 
date or acuminate more or less cordate, pan. hairy felted setose 
its branches short few-flowered coiymbose the lower axillary 
subracemose and ascending its prickles declining, sep. ovate-at- 
tenuate hauy felted setose loosely reflexed from the fi-uit. — The 
following forms h.ave been considered a.s species. — a. R. mn- 
brosus (Anh.) ; prickles slender from a large base, 1. quinate. 
Its. douhhj and patimth) dentate velvety or slightly felted beneath, 
term. It. broadly obovate cuspidate, pan. with slender prickles, 
tip of Sep. linear, cor. rose-colom'ed. R. carpinifolim Blox. Term. 
It. sometimes dinded into three. — ^. R. macroph yllm (W. &; N. ) ; 
prickles small short from a very large base, 1. 5 — .3-nate, Its. ir- 
regularly deutate-sen-ate haiiT only on the veins and rarely felted 
beneath, tenn. It. elliptic or broadly obovate, pan. with slender 
f)rickles, sep. leaf-pointed, cor. white. R. G. 12. Lts. oiUm very 
arge. St. often with a few aciculi and setae. A ver\' variable 
plant. — y. R. Sehlechtendalii (W. & X.) ; prickles sliort small 
from a very large base, 1. usually quinate. Us. douhhj and pa- 
tently dentate usually hairy only on the veins not felted beneath, 
term. U. long ohovate acuminate wedgeshaped or subcordate at 
the base, pan. with strong prickles, sep. •^nth a linear point, cor. 
white, ill. G^. 11. Hardly distinguishable from var. |3. — S. R. 
am lijicatm (Lees) ; prickles short from a very large base, 1. 
usually quinate, Us. somewhat doubly patently dentate hairy 
only on the veins beneath not felted, term. It. broadly obovate 
acuminate, pan. very large its prickles strong compressed from 
a very large base, sep. usually leaf-pointed, cor. white or pink- 
ish. " Remarkable for tlie very strong prickles with exceedingly 
long compressed bases on its panicle. — f. f/hibratiis; prickles 
short from a very large base, 1. quinate. Its. irregukrly or rather 
doubly dentate sliy/itly hairy only on tlie veins beneatii, term. It. 
