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lower stature, occurring on grassy banks near the foot of the waterfall 

 in the Eibeira de Santa Luzia. 



I regret my inability to verify the reference to t. 1432 of the 'Bota- 

 nical Begister;' but, from the existence of two apparently garden spe- 

 cimens in the Hookerian Herbarium on the same sheet, one being the 



P: 



grandifolius 



Dr. Lindley," the above synonym most probably belongs to one or the 

 other of these forms of /?. 



The synonym of Seubert's * Flora Azorica ' belongs certainly to a ; 

 but the single, remarkably shaggy Azorian specimen from Guthnick 

 and Hochstetter, in the Hookerian Herbarium, as certainly belongs to ft. 



T. 4625 of the c Botanical Magazine' well represents the normal state, 

 a, of the Madeiran plant, except the erecto-patent hairs, which are at 

 variance not only with its usual aspect, but with the original particular 

 specimen itself, happily preserved in my kind and valued friend's mag- 

 nificent Herbarium. Still in the native plant I have occasionally. met 

 with a few rare, and, as it were, accidental instances of variation from 

 the almost constant close-pressed character of the cauline hairs ; and 

 they may have possibly become more close-pressed in the dried than 

 in the recent plant. The uncoloured spike also on the right-hand side 

 of the plate is more distinctly oblong than I have ever noticed it to be in 



it have been sketched in from a specimen of R. cor tusaf alius, 

 separated in the Herbarium from R. grandifolius. The de- 



arur 



"hairs dilated at the base," and "laterally hairy ovary ;" characters 

 which, neither existing in the Madeiran plant, nor in the original spe- 

 cimen here figured, can only have been taken from some specimen of 



cortuscefolius, Willd 



grandifolius 



iusafoliu 



foliage and flowers, coarser, more robust, stout habit, and close-pressed 

 pubescence. The sharply-toothed, not crenate root-leaves, close-pressed 

 pubescence of the stem, corymbose inflorescence, and always smooth 

 achaenia, again distinguish it in both its varieties from the same plants; 

 and it differs further from R. corlmrcfolim, Willd., in its never bulbous 

 hairs or spotted leaves, and rarely oblong fruit-spikes. In /?, as to >\/, 

 and stature, it approaches nearest to R. Creticns, L., but the sharp)) 



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