184 17. R. SALTERI. 



below, subcuspidate; or basal and intermediate of each side 

 combined into a single roundly oval slightly unequal-sided 

 cuspidate leaflet, which is nearly as large as the tenninal 

 leaflet; terminal roundly oval, subcordate scarcely narrowed 

 below, cu.spidate. Panicle long, often leafy to the top, lax; 

 rachis wavy, and as well as the branches and peduncles 

 felted, hairy, with many sunken setse and subsessile glands; 

 branches mostly axillary, short, ascending, racemose, upper- 

 most corymbose and patent. Sepals oblong, slightly prickly, 

 felted, hairy, a little setose, often leaf-pointed, loosely reflexed 

 from the fruit. Petals rather distant, ovate, clawed, pink- 

 ish (deep rose-coloured on Irish specimens). Filaments 

 pink. Anthers yellowish. Styles greenish. Terminal flower 

 and fruit shortly stalked. Nut half-oblong; inner edge 

 straight. 



Mr Bloxam long supposed this to be the true R. sylva- 

 ticus (W. & N.), but that plant seems to be a state of R. 

 villicaulis. He afterwards gave a new name to it derived 

 from its stem soon becoming bald. It does not seem to be 

 at all nearly related to R. villicaulis. 



It is probable that R. Salteri and R. calvatus form 

 the extremes of one species, although the characters given 

 above might be considered as suflficient to separate them 

 specifically. The serratures of the leaves differ consider- 

 ably in well-developed specimens, but the general look 

 presented by them is very similar. In R. calvatus they 

 resemble large spreading teeth set at equal distances along 

 the edge of a minutely dentate leaflet; in R. Salteri they 

 are large unequal-sided teeth which are themselves dentate. 

 It is very difficult, and probably undesirable, to attempt a 

 distinction between these structures. Even in R. Salteri 

 the points of the large teeth are sometimes bent backwards, 

 but not in so great a degree as are those of R. calvatus. 

 The panicle of R. calvatus is sometimes leafy almost to its 



