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on the veins beneath, irregularly subpatently dentate-serrate; terminal 

 leaflet obovate-acuminate. Panicle long, narrow pyramidal, setose ; its 

 branches few-flowered erect-patent, its prickles few, slender. Sepals 

 greenish-tomentose with paler margins externally. Many of the panicle 

 branches one-flowered. Sepals ovate, leaf pointed. Petals oblanceolate. 

 Stamens exceeding the styles." The petals are pure white. 



A comparison of the Plymouth plant some years ago with one labelled 

 hirttfolius, Wirtg., m jMr. Baker's collection, satisfied me as to the 

 identity of the two. I am much pleased to find Professor Babington 

 supporting this opinion by saying m a letter to me : " Your plant is very 

 like hirtifoiius (Wirtg. Rich. ed. 1, 173), which is, I suppose, only a 

 subordinate form of iiyramidalis (Kaltenb. , Focke) [a name published 

 four years before m^ 2yyramidali8\ It is also umhrat'icus^ Miill., which 

 is a later name. I suppose that it must bear Kaltenbach's name, and 

 ray yyramidalis must take the ugly one of Lees — longithyrsiger. Your 

 plant will take its place close to leucostachys as probably a new species 

 of our flora. I have what seems to be the same from Alborne, Sussex, 

 and Apse Castle Wood, Isle of Wight. Focke's specimens and others 

 are not quite so naked under the leaves as our plants, but they have 

 hairs only there." 



243. B. Salteri, Bab.; h. calvatus, Blox. 



Native ; in hedges, and other bushy places. Rather rare, and 

 decidedly local. July, August, 

 c. I. St. Mellion, in hedges by the turnpike road. 



II. Hedge at Carkeel, Botus Fleming. By the Tamar near Cotehele. 

 In plenty near Callington. By the CalHngton and Tavistock 

 Road, near Harrowbarrow. 

 D. III. Saltash Passage, Tamerton Foliot, in Southaway Lane, near 

 Axter Gate and towards Blaxton. In abundance in hedges 

 near Beer Alston, extending down to the Tamar. Between 

 Tavistock and Newbridge. 

 IV. Near Marsh House, Crabtree. Plymbridge Road, Derriford, 



Coleridge, &c., Egg Buckland. Near Bickleigh. 

 The late Rev. A. Bloxam himself named a specimen that I sent him 

 calvatus. Last summer Mr. J. E. Bagnall kindly favoured me with fresh 

 specimens from Appleby Road, Twycross, "Mr. Bloxam's old station," 

 and these agree so well with local ones collected near Harrowbarrow, that 

 but for some appearance of felt on the leaves of the barren stem of the 

 latter, the whole might have been produced by one bush. 



What M. Genevier regards as calvatus, Blox. , is evidently the same as 

 the Plymouth plant, judging from his French specimens in Baker's 

 Herharium. I consider R. stenoacanthus, Lef., and P. J. M., of Wirtg. 

 Herb. Plant. Select. Flor. Rhen. 1065, the R. calvatus of Bloxam. 



