38. R. GLANDULOSUS. 247 



Herb. Norm. v. 52 (sp.). Metsch in Linnaea xxviii. 175. 

 Billot! Fl. Gal. et Germ, exsic. No. 2257 (sp.). Syme's 

 Eng. Bot. iii. t. 454. 



E. glandulosuB a Bellardi Bab. ! Man. ed. G. 117. 



R. Wlrtgeni Auersw. in Wirtg. Fl. Preuss. Rhein. 155. 



Stem arcuate-prostrate, round below, slightly angular 

 towards the extremity, dark red when exposed, with a slight 

 glaucous bloom, densely covered with short and nearly equal 

 red aciculi and setae, and a few hairs. Prickles short and 

 slender, from longitudinally dilated bases, all nearly equal and 

 longer than the aciculi, declining. Leaves ternate. Leaflets 

 nearly equal, large, convex, oblong, cuspidate, green on both 

 sides, finely dentate-serrate, pilose above, with short hairs on 

 the veins above, and slightly paler beneath ; basal unequal- 

 sided, patent, shortly stalked ; terminal slightly obovate, 

 stalked, rounded or subcordate below. Rarely the leaves are 

 quinate ; lower leaflets oblong, cuspidate, shortly stalked ; 

 intermediate obovate-oblong, cuspidate, rather unequal-sided 

 and subcordate at the base, stalked; terminal obovate-oblong, 

 cuspidate, cordate at the base. Petioles (which are flat above) 

 and midribs with many small unequal declining or deflexed 

 prickles, aciculi and setae beneath ; stipules very narrow or 

 linear-lanceolate-attenuate. * 



Flowering shoot from fuscous scales, armed like the stem. 

 Leaves ternate. Leaflets obovate, narrowed below ; basal 

 unequal-sided ; or rarely the leaves are simple, 3-lobed, with 

 a cordate base. Panicle broad and short ; branches few, 

 straight, axillary, short, patent, usually corymbose, with the 

 lateral flowers patent and long-stalked, and the terminal 

 flower shortly stalked, or racemose-corymbose, or the lowest 

 racemose; top racemose, short; prickles very slender; setae, 

 and hail's many ; rachis rather wa\y, sometimes remarkably 

 so. Sepals ovate-attenuate, leaf-pointed, aciculate, setose, 

 hairy, felted, adpressed to the young fruit, afterwards more 



