228 33. R. LEJEUNII. 



of the same side combine to form one strongly-lobed leaflet; 

 petioles and midribs witb small hooked prickles beneath; 

 petioles apparently not fun-owed above; stipules slender. 



Flowering shoot angular, armed like the stem. Leaves 

 ternate. Leaflets obovate-oblong, subcuspidate, lobate-serrate 

 towards their end, gi-een on both sides, pilose above, rather 

 paler and hairy on the veins beneath. Panicle open ; axil- 

 lary branches rather long but rarely exceeding the leaves, 

 racemose-corymbose ; ultra-axillary part shoi-t, with short 

 patent corymbose branches; peduncles and branches with 

 many unequal sti-aight declining prickles, very many unequal 

 setae, of which the longest scarcely exceed in length the 

 abundant hairs, a few aciculi, and a thin coat of felt. SeiKtls 

 ovate, with a short linear point, green with a narrow white 

 border, hairy, felted, setose, aciculate, patent or locsely ad- 

 pressed to the fruit. Primordial fridtstalk about as long as 

 the lateral ones, shorter than the sepals. 



Dr Bell Salter's plant from Selborne agrees well with the 

 plate of R. Lejeunii given in the Ruhi Gerriianici. Mr 

 Hind's plant has a narrow and more leafy panicle, but agrees 

 with this species in other respects. My plant from Guernsey 

 has broader leaflets, which are rather cuspidate than acumi- 

 nate. In Mr Gibson's plant from Essex more of the upper 

 part of the panicle is leafless, and there are more large 

 prickles on the stem, but fewer small ones. 



Dr Salter remarks that "^. rosaceus may be known 

 from B. Lejeunii by the far greater abundance of glands 

 [setae] in every part, by the leaves being ternate instead of 

 quinate-pedate, by the absence of tomentum from the panicle 

 and by the greater length of the calyx." In all these re- 

 spects my plant from Guernsey is rather P. Lejeunii, as I 

 originally {Prim. Fl. Sam. 32) supposed, than R. rosaceus, 

 as it was afterwards {Phytol. ii. 133) named by Dr Salter. 

 The plant from Guildford, Isle of Wight, named R. rosaceics 



