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one leaf where the terminal leaflet is lobed on one side of its 

 base and has thrown off a distinct oblong leaflet on the other 

 side) ; or the leaf becomes ternate by the combination of the 

 basal aud intermediate leaflets; petioles, which are flat or 

 slightly furrowed above, and midribs with slender deflexed 

 prickles beneath; stipules very slender, linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering sJtoot long, leafy, with many hairs setae and 

 aciculi, and many slender declining prickles from large com- 

 pressed bases. Leaves usually ternate, like those of the stem 

 in all other respects, rarely subquinate; floral leaves very 

 large, uppermost simple, cordate and lobed or cordate- ovate. 

 Panicle long, usually leafy to the top, hairy, setose and 

 aciculate ; branches many, distant, short, corymbose, few- 

 flowered, axillary, erect-patent ; top corymbose ; prickles 

 many, very unequal, slender, declining. Sepals shortly 

 ovate, abruptly acuminate, often with a long leaf-like point. 

 Petals rather distant, ovate, blunt, clawed, entire, white. 

 Filaments white. An'hers and styles greenish. 



Mr Bloxam long since stated it to be his opinion that 

 this plant did not associate well with R. Bahioigtonii {E. 

 scale?'), and I have for some time fully agreed with him. In 

 many respects it very nearly approaches the P. thyrsijiorus 

 of Weihe. the chief distinctions of w^hich from R. Bloxamii 

 consist in its rounder stem, serrate rather than dentate 

 leaflets, and especially in the greater part of its panicle 

 being leafless, dense and cylindrical, and the branches (even 

 the two or three axillary ones) racemose. These branches are 

 described as far nearer corymbose than they are represented 

 on the plate of the Rubi Germanici. If the R. thyrsijiorus and 

 R. Bloxamii vary in that respect, as seems probable from 

 this discrepancy in the Rubi Germanici, and from the fact 

 that of two specimens of the latter plant received from Mr 

 Leighton (who gathered them at Almond Park, near Shrews- 

 bury) one has a more naked top to its panicle than is found 



