174 24. R. HYSTRIX. 



slender, declining from very long compressed bases, unequal, 

 chiefly on the angles. Leaves quinate-pedate. Leaflets flat, 

 wavy at the edge, coarsely and more or less doubly dentate, 

 all oblong-obovate acuminate, pilose above, hairy and a 

 little paler but not felted beneath; midribs and furrowed 

 petioles with many unequal hooked prickles beneath; sti- 

 pules linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot from brown silky scales, setose, aciculate, 

 hairy. Leaves tern ate. Leaflets oblong-obovate, acuminate, 

 pilose above, hairy on the veins beneath, finely but irregu- 

 larly dentate ; basal nearly sessile, unequal-based ; upper- 

 most floral often simple. Prickles rather strong, long-based, 

 declining, those of the panicle slender. Panicle very long ; 

 branches distant, racemose, mostly axillary; top racemose- 

 corymbose ; rachis and peduncles with many short rather 

 unequal aciculi and setae and a thin coat of felt near the top. 

 Seimls ovate-attenuate, often leaf-pointed, felted, setose, aci- 

 culate. Petals distant, lanceolate, rounded at the end, entire, 

 pink. Filaments ^\ate. Anthers grQ&m^h.. Styles greemshy 

 but pink at the base. Primordial fruit-stalk rather long; 

 terminal stalks of the branches usually shorter than the 

 lateral stalks. 



Our plant diners in some respects from that figured with 

 the same name in the Ruhi Germanici. The prickles on the 

 stem of the latter are very diflferent, being broad, flat, and 

 narrowing gradually from their base to their tip : there are 

 also many smaller but similar prickles upon the faces of the 

 stem : also the stamens are described as reddish and the 

 sepals as reflexed from the fruit. 



A plant received from Mr Watson, others named R. 



fuscus by Lees and Bloxam, and one gathered near Coalford, 



Gloucestershire, by Mr Hort, have a very thin coat of felt 



beneath their leaves, and much resemble a specimen sent by 



M. Questier as R. Lingua; but they have a clasping calyx 



