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Rosace®. 
g. Villosae. 
34. Dense shrubs with rather short, straight branches. 
Peduncles short. Cor. bright rose-colour. (Cal.- 
divisions erect on the fr., persistent until maturity and 
often continuing to grow. Styles woolly; fr. soon be¬ 
coming pulpy sometimes slightly drooping) . . 35 
Shrubs laxer, with longer, curved branches. Peduncles of 
moderate length or long. Cor. pale rose or almost white. 
Fr.-disk broader than in the last. Prickles less finely 
pointed, often slightly arched .... 36 
35. Cal.-tube and peduncles gen. thickly covered with strong 
stip. glands resembling small prickles. Leaflets 
gen. large, oblong with equal breadth, or elliptic, broad 
and rounded at the base. Shrubs of V 2 to IV 2 m. Fr. 
large, gen. globular.—a. eglandulosa (typica Exc. fl. 
4th edit.). Leaflets large, densely villous, without glands 
on either side.—b. recondita Pug. Leaflets large, hairy, 
with numerous small, pale glands underneath.—c. pro¬ 
ximo Cott. ex Chr. (mollis-pomifera?). Leaflets large, 
hairy with abundant glands underneath or on both sides, 
but broader, often rather acute; petioles covered with 
numerous stip. glands and with small prickles which 
descend partly, as also the villosity, to the branches; 
prickles numerous, often clustered together under the 
petioles. (Col de Chaude above Yilleneuve).—d . Grenieri 
D. Leaflets smaller and often narrower or almost cunei¬ 
form, covered with a dense (almost shining) villosity, 
with or without scattered, coloured, subfoliar glands. 
—e. Gaudini Pug. Leaflets large, almost glabr., with 
abundant coloured glands underneath or on both sides; 
teeth broader. — f. friburgensis Lagg. Leaflets smaller, 
almost glabr., with abundant glands underneath or on 
both sides, the glands slightly stipitate; teeth sharper, 
very glandular; differing from R. spinulifolia in the' 
more abundant prickles, the shorter peduncles and the 
fr. being covered with small glandiferous prickles, not 
neck-shaped (Montbovon).—Mount., subalp. and Alp., 
especially in the central chain (W. T.); very rare in 
the Jura. 6. pomifera Herrm. 764. 
— Cal.-tube and peduncles covered with weaker stip. glands, 
the glands rarely (var. spinescens Chr. = mollis-pomi¬ 
fera?) supported by small setaceous prickles. Leaflets 
wrinkled, gen. smaller, closer, and often broader than 
in the last, oval or obovate, covered with a dense, soft 
(often shining) villosity, with smaller, shorter, closer, 
very glandular teeth. Low shrubs (1 m). Branches often 
covered with a bloom and streaked with violet-red; 
