QQ THE NATUKALIST, 



termediate between B. tomentosa and R. Borreri, differing from the former 

 by its prickles, which are more of the BuhiginoscB than the ViUosce type, 

 leaves thinner and more delicate in texture, glabrous above when matare, 

 hairy only on the veins beneath but covered all over with fine green viscid 

 glands and by its stipules and bracts not hairy on the back and only the 

 lower ones glandular ; and from the latter by its stout subglobose prickly 

 fruit, peduncles and calyx tube densely beset with setae and strong aciculi, 

 and sepals tomentose at the edges and densely coated on the back. 



X. — K. CRYPTOPODA. Prickles somewhat unequal, the larger ones 

 uncinate and moderately robust below. Leaves from three to three and a 

 half inches from the base to the apex of the terminal leaflet, which is ovate 

 or elliptical, either rounded or somewhat narrowed towards the base, and 

 measures rather more than an inch long by three-quarters of an inch wide. 

 Leaflets greyish or glaucous green, glabrous on the upper surface, still 

 greyer beneath, hairy only on the midrib and principal veins, but thinly 

 scattered all over with green viscous glands, the serratures open but not 

 deep, each furnished with several fine gland-tipped teeth, the petioles 

 pubescent and setose, and furnished with two or three ftdcate aciculi. 

 Stipules glandular on the back or even a little pubescent, the upper ones 

 and the bracts very large, when the plant is in flower quite hiding the 

 short peduncles, the bracts also glandular on the back but not hairy, all 

 finely setoso-ciliated. Peduncles very short and quite naked. Calyx tube 

 broadly ovate or subglobose, quite naked, glaucous and tinged with purple. 

 Sepals five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch long, naked on the back 

 but somewhat hairy towards the edges, the more luxuriant ones furnished 

 with three or four erecto-patent toothed pinnse on each side, all copiously 

 setoso-ciliated. Petals deep red, the flowers measuring about an inch 

 across. Styles villose. Fruit subglobose, not at all narrowed at the neck, 

 measuring about five-eighths of an inch each way, ripening in September, 

 by which time the erecto-patent sepals have all fallen. 



Found by Mr. S. King in the neighbourhood of Luddenden, near 

 Halifax, in West Yorkshire. This comes near to R. sepium, Thuill. from 

 which it differs by the size, shape, and colour of its leaves, their hairy ribs 

 and petioles, its peculiar bracts, stipules, and peduncles, subglobose fruit, 

 slightly hairy sepals and villose styles. It is nearer still to the French 

 R. virgiiUorum, Ripart, ( R. iief/lecta, Ripart oUm, non Leman), but this has 

 firm textured green leaves glabrous on both sides, more glandular beneath 

 tlian in our plant, the terminal leaflet often much narrowed at the base. 



