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beneath, the lower and intermediate ones overlapping ; and its 

 woolly fruit. Its leaves much resemble those of that form of 

 E. discolor named R. abruptus by Lindley, but that has silky 

 barren and flowering shoots and rachis, and a very different pa- 

 nicle. Perhaps the most remarkable character of this plant is 

 found in its woolly fruit, by which it is distinguished from all the 

 allied species. The authors of the ' Flora Silesise ' have not de- 

 scribed the fruit of their plant. Arrhenius mentions a pubescent- 

 fruited variety of R. corylifolim, but our present subject can 

 scarcely be confounded with that species. 



10. R. discolor, W. et N. 



In place of the description of the varieties (Annals^ xvii. 236) 

 it is proposed to substitute the following. 



«. discolor ; caule strigoso-sericeo, aculeis declinatis deflexisve, fo- 

 liolis marginem versus saepissime decurvatis supra glabriusculis 

 subtus albis tenuissime tomentosis, paniculse racemosae tomentosae 

 ramis decompositis. 



R. discolor, Rub. Germ. 46. t. 20 ; Arrhenius, Rub, Suec. 32. 



R. fruticosus, Sm. Eng. Bot. 715. 



/3. thyrsoideus (Bell Salt. !) ; caule subglabro, aculeis rectis, foliolis 

 planis supra glabris subtus viridi-cano- vel candicanti-tomentosis, 

 panicula elongata thyrsoidea tomentosa. 



R. thyrsoideus (Wimm.), Arrhen. Rub. Suec. 28. 



R. fruticosus. Rub. Germ. 24. t. 7. 



R. discolor var. lividus, Bloxam MSS. in Fasc. of Rubi, 



y. macroacanthus (Bell Salt.!); caule sparsim patenteque piloso, 

 aculeis validis pilosis rectiusculis paululumve deflexis, foliolis 

 planis supra pilosis subtus pubescent! -canis mollibus, paniculae 

 pubescentis ramis racemosis paucifloris. 



R. macroacanthos. Rub. Germ. 44. t. 18. 



S. argenteus (Bell Salt.) ; caule patente-piloso, aculeis rectis, foliolis 

 planis subtus argenteo-cano-pubescentibus, panicula^ pubescentis 

 ramis racemoso-compositis paucifloris. 



R. argenteus, Rub. Germ. 45. t. 19. 



Obs. 1. Since the publication of my former account of this 

 species I have seen reason to modify my views concerning its va- 

 rieties. I now think that Dr. Bell Salter is correct in referring 

 tab. 7 of the ' Rub. Germ.' to the R. thyrsoideus of Arrhenius ; his 

 and my var. p. of this species. The former difference between us 

 originated from none of my specimens of R. thyrsoideus having 

 well-developed panicles. A plant given as R. discolor var. lividus 

 in Bloxam's ^ Fasciculus of Rubi ' is what I consider as the true 

 R. thyrsoideus. 



Obs, 2, The former "Obs. 2'' (Annals, xvii. 337) is not cor- 



