248 88. R. GLANDULOSUS. 



or less reflexed. Petals distant, narrow, obovate, narrowed 

 below, entire, white. Filaments white. Anthers and styles 

 greenish, the latter sometimes rather pink at their base. 

 Primordial fruit'Stalk short, about as long as the sepals. 

 Nut ^-ovate ; inner edge straight. 



Perhaps the most remarkable points observable in this 

 plant are the ternate leaves with the lateral leaflets placed 

 opposite to each other and at right angles to the pedicel of 

 the terminal leaflet; and the very open but short and usually 

 wavy panicle with the axillaiy branches spreading nearly at 

 right angles, undivided below, and ending in a simple or 

 double corymb of flowers ; the branch is quite straight from 

 its base to the terminal flower, so are the secondary branches, 

 which are themselves patent, and bear patent lateral flowers. 

 The terminal flower of each branch has usually a shorter 

 stalk than the lateral flowers. 



This plant sometimes has quinate leaves, and is much 

 stronger than when they are ternate ; its leaflets are very 

 much larger, as also is its panicle. It does not seem to 

 differ in other respects, and is then apparently a plant of 

 woodland districts, and shows an approach to the var, 

 hirtus. Mr Bloxam identifies the plant found at Terrington 

 Car with R. Wirtgeni (Auersw.) of Wirtgen's Herb. Rub. 



Arrhenius has proved that this is the R. glandulosus of 

 Bellardi, in opposition to the opinon of E-eichenbach and 

 others that R. hirtus (W. and N.) is the true plant. His 

 opinion is apparently fully confirmed by the remark of 

 Bellardi in the original description of his plant — "folia in 

 meis speciminibus nunquam quinta;" therefore the conclu- 

 sion deduced by Eeichenbach from the expression "foliis 

 quinatis ternatisque" appearing in Bellardi's specific cha- 

 racter of the species must be rejected. Wahlenberg, who 

 saw Kitaibel's specimens, describes our plant as R. glandu- 

 losus, and adds, "Ab hoc distinguitur R. hirtus (Kitaib.) 



