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Rosacese. 
prickles and at the same time larger and stronger ones 
(v. spreta D.), or entirely unarmed (v. mitissima Grml.), 
with peduncles hispid-glandular (v. hispida), and with 
fr. peculiarly pear-shaped, narrowed into the peduncle 
(v. Mathoneti D.). —Stony slopes of the Jura from Geneva 
to Schaffh. Roche! 0. 5 . . spinosissima L. 738. 
— Leaflets 7, elliptic, hairy and glandular under¬ 
neath, doubly toothed; teeth narrower and directed more 
forwards. Stipules less suddenly dilated at the top, 
with oblong auricles. Pedunc’es hispid-glandular. Pets 
of a gray-rose-colour underneath, purplish above. Fr. 
ovoid, red. R. mollis-spinosissima?—Rochefort, Canton 
Neuchatel. 6.* dichroa Lerch. 739. 
9(5). Leaflets softly gr ay-1 o m e n t o s e (almost villous) 
underneath doubly toothed, at least those of the lower 
Is of the fl.-branches, with hidden subfoliar glands. Dis¬ 
tinguished from R. mollis, vestita and the allied forms 
by the unequal prickles and the roundish-oval leaflets 
of R. spinosissima. R. coronata Gren. R. involuta Sm. 
— b. Ravellce Christ, Leaflets more elongated, less hairy, 
with the underside and the teeth covered with more 
numerous glands.—c. subsimplex Grml, Leaflets almost or 
entirely without subfoliar glands, with not very glandular 
teeth, sometimes indeed simple.— Saleve near Geneva, 
Ravellenfluh, Canton Solothurn, Lagern. 6 
Sabini Woods. 740. 
— Leaflets almost entirely glabr., simply or indistinctly 
double toothed, without subfoliar glands. Prickles J /2 
larger than in R. spinos.—Saleve. 6 * sabauda Rapin. 741. 
d. Gallicanee. 
10(4). Leaflets 3—5, large, rather leathery and dry, round- 
oval or broad-elliptic, with broadly-rounded or almost 
cordate base, rather obtuse at the end, without sub¬ 
foliar glands, net-veined and grayish underneath, often 
folded together and bent back; teeth superficial, broad, 
spreading, without glands or with 1—3. Stipules nar¬ 
row. Peduncles long, hispid-glandular. Cor. large, very 
open, bright-rose or almost purplish. Large prickles slender, 
slightly bent; smaller ones very numerous.—Yar.: shrub 
of 3—5 dm, few- or 1-fld (a. austriaca Cravtz)\ and 
higher 5—12-fld, at the same time with sharp teeth (b. elnta 
Chr .).—Tess., Geneva, Zurich (Marthalen), Schaffh. 6 
gallica L. 742. 
— Leaflets 5—7, fairly large, thin, glabr., broad-elliptic 
or oval, pointed or short - acuminate, almost without 
subfoliar glands; teeth, especially the foremost ones, 
large, penetrating deeply, very sharp and directed 
