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hairs; its leaflets are proportionally longer, more acuminate, 

 sometimes rather obovate and those of the flowering shoot 

 narowed slightly to their base; more deeply toothed or even 

 jagged. Their panicles are exceedingly alike in nearly all 

 respects; but tlie leaflets are narrower, and the top of the 

 rachis is felted like the peduncles, in Borrer's plant. Its 

 petcils are ''pink and the filaments of its stamens dark 

 purple." The fruit is only sparingly produced. Mr Borrer's 

 plant is certainly not the R. carpinifolius of the Ruhi Ger- 

 7ucmici, and he would "not have ventured to give it as the 

 li. carjnmfolius (W. & N.), but for the exact accordance of 

 an authentic specimen." It is not stated by whom that 

 specimen was named, and I certainly believe that it had no 

 real claim to the name which it bore. Any person who will 

 compare tab. 13 of the Ruhi Germanici with the plate in 

 English Botany must be struck with their exceedingly great 

 difference. 



There is another plant which I think may safely be 

 combined with these. It was sent to me by Mr Bloxam, and 

 is growing in the Cambridge Botanical Garden from seeds 

 given by him. He supposed it and R. Colemanni to be the 

 R.infestus (Weihe). It approaches nearly to the R. carpi- 

 nifolius of Borrer, but its leaves and even leaflets are in- 

 curved at the edges, whilst Borrer states that those of his 

 plant have their edges "often somewhat deflexed." Its 

 leaflets resemble those of Borrer's R. carpinifolius in not 

 overlapi)ing, in which respect both these plants differ re- 

 markably from the R. Grahoioskii. It much resembles R. 

 Colemanni, but there the leaflets are concave, hairy on the 

 veins but not felted beneath, the petals are oval entire and 

 white, not ovate jagged and pale pink as is their state in 

 Borrer s R. carpinifolius and the present plant; neither are 

 its filaments and styles at all pink. This plant grows in 

 Hartshill wood, Warwickshire. 



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