150 20. R. MACROPHYLLUS. 



vato, aculeis paniculse tenuibus, sepalorum apice scEpe 

 iQY\di.cQo-dilatato, corolla alba. 



R. macrophyllus Hub! Germ. 35. t. 12 (1825?). Borr. ! in 

 Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2625 ; in Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 2. 246; ed. 

 3. 250. Leight. ! Fasc. (sp.). Johnst. ! E. Bord. 63. Lees, 

 Malv. 56. Bor. Fl. Centr. 201. Wirtg. ! Rub. Rhenan. 

 Nos. 11, 79, 80 (sp.). Billot ! Fl. Gall, et Germ, exsic. No. 

 1660 (sp.). Syme's Eng. Bot. iii. 177. t. 450. 



Pi,, vulgaris 8 macrophyllus Sond. Hamb. 276. 



R. vulgaris Leiglit. ! Shrop. 231 (in part). 



R. velutinus Weihe ! in Beicbenb. Fl. exsic. No. 785 



(sp.). 



R. SchlechtendaUi Billot ! Fl. Gall, et Germ, exsic. No. 



1469 (sp.). 



R. hispidus Merc. Cat. de Geneve, teste Genevier ! 



Stem at first nearly upright, then curving down to the 

 gi'ound and extending itself close to the surface, angular, 

 furrowed towards the end, having a variable quantity of 

 short mostly patent deciduous hairs, and sometimes a few 

 short setae and aciculi, also rarely a little felt. (An authen- 

 tic specimen of the plant figured in English Botany has a 

 considerable quantity of felt on its stem.) Prickles usually 

 few, declining, short, conical, but a little compressed, rather 

 slender, often shorter than and rarely longer than the greater 

 diameter of their very long compressed low bases. Leaves 

 quinate or ternate, subpedate. Leaflets rather thin, green 

 on both sides, with scattered hairs above, paler and hairy on 

 the veins beneath (the spaces between the veins being either 

 quite naked and rough, or more or less densely felted), rather 

 irregularly dentate or doubly patently dentate; basal shortly- 

 stalked, oblong, acute ; intermediate obovate, subcuspidate 

 or subacuminate, often subcordate at the base ; terminal 

 long-stalked, very variable in shape from roundly obovate to 



