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4. R. fissus. Lindl. 



K caule suberecto vel subarcuato, obtusangulo, 

 aculeis crehris tenuibus rectis vel deflexis e hasi ohlonga 

 pauhdum dilatata conicis sjmr^sis, foliis 5-7-natis, foliolis 

 pUcatis, foliolo terminali cordato-ovato infimis sessilibus 

 ramorum floriferorum basi soepe plus minus ve gibbosis, 

 panicula simplici racemoso-corymbosa pilosa, sejmlis 

 fructum (atro-sanguineum) saepe laxe amplectentihus. 



R. fissus Lindl.! Syn. ed. 2. 92 (1835). Leigh t. ! Fl. 

 Shrop. 225; in Pliytol. iii. 72; Shropshire Eubi, 2. (sp.) 

 Bab. Man. ed. 3. 93; ed. 6. 106; A. N. H. ser. 2. ix. 124. 



R. plicatus Leight. ! Shrop. Kubi, 3. (sp.). 



R. suherectus ji fissus Lange, Danske Flora, 342. 



Creeping. Stem hard, scarcely angular at the base, bluntly 

 angular towards the end, considerably inclined, but not 

 arching to the ground, \\-2 feet long, hairy, rather glaucous, 

 with many subsessile glands. Prickles many, slender, usually 

 much longer than the long diameter of their small dilated 

 base, scattered (that is, not confined to the angles of the stem). 



Leaves quinate or pinnate-septenate. Leaflets rather 

 coriaceous, plicate, unequally serrate, green on both sides, 

 pilose and dull above, paler with rather crisped shining hairs 

 beneath (sometimes so covered with these hairs as to seem 

 felted); basal oblong, acute, very nearly or quite sessile; 

 intermediate ovate; terminal cordate-ovate, cuspidate; sep- 

 tenate leaves similar, but in place of the terminal leaflet 

 there are three leaflets of which the lateral are oval, acute, 

 and sessile, the terminal ovate or obovate, subcordate below 



