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Rosacea?. 
Discolores. 
47. Shoots (unsupported) low-arched, often prostrate, flat¬ 
sided, with dense, tangled hairs and longer spreading 
ones. Prickles weaker in proportion. Leaflets large, 
delicate, coarsely toothed, slightly gray-tomentose under¬ 
neath or (var. hypoleucus Focke) white-tomentose; ter¬ 
minal leaflet narrowed to a short broad point. Panicle 
very villous, often few-fld. Stas very long. Ovaries glabr. 
—Z. S. 7 .... macrophyllus. W N. 677. 
— Shoots arched-ascending, or high-arched, rarely low- 
arched in the small pis ..... 48 
48. Shoots and inflorescence, at any rate, the bracts, bearing 
isolated stip. glands. Inflorescence elongated pyra¬ 
midal, many-fld, mixed with Is often up to the top: axis 
villous, with small hooked prickles of a blood-red colour, 
tipped with yellow. Pets bright rose. Ls digitate-quinate; 
leaflets broad-oval, short-acuminate, rather deeply and 
irreg. toothed; lower lateral leaflets of the ls of the 
panicle rather shortly stalked. R. spectabilis Merc.! not 
Pursh.—Vaud, Geneva, Neuchatel, Bern, Zurich, SchafFh.; 
rather earlier than R. ulmifolius Mercieri Genev. 678. 
— Stip. glands, even in the iuflorescence, absolutely 0 40 
49. Ls with n umer o us simple hairs above, (always?) mixed 
with stellate and fascicled hairs . . . . 3 0 
— Ls glabr. above, or only with simple scattered hairs, 
always without stellate, fascicled hairs . . 32 
50. Shoots- with numerous stellate and fascicled hairs.— 
Ovaries hairy. Prickles numerous, much compressed at 
the base, rather flexible, almost straight, covered almost 
to the top with numerous fascicled hairs, those of the 
panicle almost of the same form, those of the petioles 
curved. Panicle and leaflets resembling those ofR. ulmi¬ 
folius.— Branson in Wall. . . valesiacus Grml. 679. 
— Shoots glabr. or almost so. Ovaries glabr. . . 31 
51. Shoots high-arched, deeply angular-channelled. Terminal 
leaflets cordate-orbicular with a superposed point; lower 
lateral leaflets rather shortly stalked. —Unterhallau; rare. 7 
tumidus Grml. 680. 
— Shoots-arched, ascending, obtuse-angled or flat-sided. 
Terminal leaflet elliptic-obovate, short-acuminate; lower 
iateral leaflets long-stalked. Resembling R, bifrons.— 
Yaud, Bern, Zurich, Muri, Schaffh.; Hohentwiel, but 
nowhere common. 6, 7 . . obtusangulus Grml. 681. 
52 (49). Seps greenish, edged with white. Stas shorter than 
the styles. Leaflets green underneath; terminal leaflet 
rounded at the base, very long-acuminate; lower lateral 
