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upper side, and by the hairiness on the under side wliich wants the long - patent . 

 hairs, which emerge from the felt on the under side of the leaves in R. insu- 

 laris. The prickles on the turiones and flowering shoöts of the last named 

 species are not so many, strong or so deflexed; the greatest breadth of the 

 terminal leaflet occurs at or below the middle of ihe blade, and the leaves are 

 tnore apparently pedate. Tlie inflorescence of II. Lindebergii is also very 

 characteristic. In no Continental species related to it, I have seen anything 

 analogous. It rerainds one, in some degree, of the inflorescence which is, 

 Bometimes, to be raet with in R. ca?sius. 



In oui' country, R. Lindebergii shows little inclination to vary. In the 

 ahade the leaves, as usual, are thinner, less liairy and on the under side paler 

 grey. In sunny places the leaves on the upper side can become light green, 

 and the leaflets are then usually rather small, and short stalked. Further 

 inland, especially in the eastern part of Skåne, and in Bleking, the turiones, 

 also the upper side of the leaves, are moie hairy. Mr. Neuman (Öfvers. af 

 Kongl. Vet. Akad. Förhandl. 8. pag. 69) mentions a form from the northwest 

 of Skåne, which is distinguished by a broadly ovate or eordate terminal leaflet. 

 The variety or, perhaps, subspecies in all respects the most interesting, grows 

 at Motte, near Kullen, and has been shown to me by one of my pupils, Mr. 

 B. Lidforss, viz. 



var. sericeus; turionibus magis pilosis, aculeis sparsioribus & rectioribus; 

 foliis ö-nato-pedatis, supra obsoure, subtus pallide viridibus & serieeis, foliolo 

 terminali rotundato-cordato, foliolis infimis late ellipticis (nec oblongis ut in f 

 typica); ramis florigeris dense villosis, sparsius armalis; foliolo terminali rotundato- 

 obovato; infloresceutia versus apicem sparse armato, sa?pe foliosa, racemosa, 

 simplici vel composita & ramis inferioribus produetis, axillaribus, ad basin nudis 

 & cymis paucifloris, umbelliformibus terminalis: petalis rottindato-obovatis, late 

 & breviter unguiculatis. 



Thia rather peculiar form, as already has been said, is to bo found at 

 Mötte, near Kullen, and there grows among bushes and weeds, and is almost 

 ludden by them. This is, perhaps, the cause of the peculiarities that separate it 

 from the typical form. By its broad round leaflets and ils inflorescence, ir 

 reminds one very mueh of II. polyanthemos although it wants the glandules 

 in the inflorescence, and has larger, white flowers. 1 imagine, therefore, ili.it 

 it i- analogous to rhi- Bpecies, and that, as K. insula ris, under the influence 



