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abundantly in the woods ascending to the Cumbre in the 
Island of Palma, one of the Canaries, on the new road (Camino 
nuevo) from S ta Cruz de la Palma to La Banda, in full fl. at the 
beginning of June, 1858, at a height of 3000 to 4000 ft., the 
styles vary in different fl., even on the same branch, from quite 
smooth to villose-hairy. 
ff2. P. LiEViGATA Mich. Rosa Mosqueta. 
Branches naked smooth long and trailing ; prickles uniform 
strong hooked compressed scattered ; lfts. 3 coriaceous naked, 
without glands, very smooth and shining, simply serrate ; mid- 
rib, rachis, and petioles prickly ; stip. free setaceous or subulate, 
deciduous ; fl. solitary ; sep. simple acute or with a spathulate 
tip ; fr. oblong orange-red, and with the pedic. thickly echinate. 
—Mich. Fl. Bor. -Am. i. 295 ; Lindl. Eos. Mon. 125; DC. ii. 600. 
R. nivea a, DC. ii. 599. JR. siriica Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 261 
(not Linn.) ex DC.; Lindl. Eos. Mon. 126, t. 16; BM. t. 2847. 
JR. ternata Poir. Diet. vi. 288 ex DC. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, ccc. 
About Funchal on walls and arbours, straggling often into 
waste ground, everywhere ; forming a beautiful and frequent 
covering- to graves in the English cemeteries. May, June. — 
Erroneously called in Mad. “ the Macartney Bose.” Y early 
shoots often of great length, 12-18 ft. or more, simple prostrate 
or trailing. L. evergreen. Lfts. ternate hard and stiff. Fl. 
single large, fully 3 in. in diam., delicate pure white, scentless. 
Fr. very singular with its horizontal but not pungent spines 
standing out all round like those of the husk of a Spanish 
Chestnut ( Castanea vesca Grtn.). 
b. Styles combined. 
ttt’L P. MULTIFLORA Thunb. The Bramble Rose. Rosa de 
toucar. 
Branches naked smooth very long and trailing ; prickles 
uniform, rather small or slender, hooked compressed scattered ; 
lfts. 5 or 7, without glands, soft pubescent, smoother shining 
and rugulose above, elliptic-ovate, simply and finely serrate ; 
rachis and petioles prickly, softly and thickly hairy ; stip. ad- 
nate persistent pectinate-toothed hairy; fl. in thick crowded 
corymbose pan., small, very numerous ; branches of pan., hr., 
pedic. and cal. pubescent; fl. -buds globose-ovate ; sep. “ovate 
entire ” (Lindl.). -“Thunb. Fl. Jap. 214; Willd. ii. 1077; Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 265” (ex Lindl.); DC. ii. 598. 
y. carnea Bed. and Thor. ; fl. pink, double. — DC. 1. c. R. 
multiflora BM. t. 1059; Lindl. Eos. Mon. 119. — Shr. per. Mad. 
r eg. 1, 2, ccc. In fences by roadsides and near cottages and 
houses everywhere, growing without any culture as if wild. 
May, June, tat partially till Oct. — Yearlv shoots often of pro- 
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