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cordate and slightly narrowed below; lateral obovate, pointed, 

 narrowed below ; basal oblong, not overlapping the lateral leaflets. 

 Flowering-shoot long, pubescent with lax hairs; prickles few, 

 moderate, deflexed ; leaves ternate, green beneath ; petioles and 

 midribs with few small deflexed prickles; terminal leaflet ob- 

 ovate-oblong, rather abrupt, jagged at the end. Stipules linear- 

 lanceolate. Panicle narrow, compound, pubescent with lax hairs, 

 not setose ; prickles few, short, slightly deflexed ; two or three 

 lower branches axillary from ternate or 3-lobed or simply ovate 

 leaves, often elongated and patent ; the other branches short and 

 patent, simple or 2 — 3-flowered ; terminal flower sessile ; lower 

 bracts foliaceous, upper ones trifid. Sepals woolly, ovate, closely 

 embracing the oblong black fruit. Petals lanceolate, narrowed 

 below. 



Apse Castle Wood, Isle of Wight, Dr. Bell Salter. July and 

 August. 



Obs. 1. This is a very straggling plant, prostrate unless sup- 

 ported by the neighbouring bushes or much shaded by trees. It 

 is remarkably distinct in appearance from all its allies. 



Obs. 2. A plant found by the river-side above Cramond Bridge 

 near Edinburgh probably belongs to the same species, but it has 

 its terminal leaflets cordate-acute, a short panicle with fewer hairs 

 and smaller and more numerous prickles, subquinate intermediate 

 leaves, and stipules slightly more broadly ovate ; its fruit and the 

 direction of the calyx are unknown ; its petals are shortly ovate 

 and clawed. A plant submitted to Dr. Bell Salter from Bradbury 

 Wood, Cheshire, by Mr. Sidebotham, he considers to be identical 

 with the plant of Cramond, but as with it, the direction of the 

 calyx when in fruit is not ascertained. In Mr. Sidebotham's 

 plant the panicle is somewhat larger and more branched, by 

 which it more nearly approaches the Isle of Wight or typical 

 plant, while the prickles of that part are somewhat larger. A 

 suberect form, similar to that noticed below {Obs. 3.), was sent 

 with it from the same place. Another plant, kindly sent to me 

 by the Bev. A. Bloxam, by whom it was gathered near Twy cross, 

 Leicestershire, in company with Mr. E. Lees, and named by the 

 latter gentleman "i?. amplificatus (Lees)," is also a probable 

 variety of R. Salteri. It differs from the tjrpical specimens by 

 having linear stipules ; the petioles and midribs with more nu- 

 merous and stronger prickles; the flowering- shoot with much 

 stronger and more numerous hooked prickles, and leaves ashy 

 beneath ; panicle with rather numerous and very strong hooked 

 prickles, its branches nearly all axillary short few-flowered co- 

 rymbose from ternate leaves, the uppermost leaf simple lanceo- 

 late ; end of the panicle leafless, corymbose, terminal flower shortly 

 stalked; the fruit smaller with a patent (?) calyx. This plant 



