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setose, aciculate. Prickes very small, slender, declining. 

 Leaves ternate. Leaflets rather coarsely and doubly serrate. 

 Panicle long ; branches ascending, long, axillary, racemose 

 or corymbose ; top leafless, racemose, with divaricate few- 

 flowered branches having the stalk of their terminal flower 

 usually about as long as the ascending stalks of the lateral 

 flowers which are nearest to it; rachis more or less wavy. 

 Sepals ovate-attenuate, with a leaflike point, hairy, setose, 

 aciculate, clasping the fruit. Petals distant, roundish, blunt, 

 entire, clawed, white. Filaments white. Anthers greenish. 

 ASt9/les faintly flesh-coloured. Primordial fruitstalk short, 

 equalling the calyx. NiU ^-ovate ; inner edge nearly straight. 



Garke (1. c. 124) considers the R. hirtus (W. and N.) as 

 distinct from that of W. and K., and combines P. Giin- 

 theri with it. I have no doubt that the present plant is the 

 P. hirtus (W. and K.) and probably also of Weihe and Nees. 



My specimens vary considerably in the amount of hair 

 upon the leaves, especially on their upper side; but this 

 seems to result rather from its being deciduous than origi- 

 nally wanting there. When the panicle is well developed it 

 corresponds with the plate in Pubi Germanici, but it is 

 frequently very much smaller and less branched. Mr Lees 

 remarks that the panicle is often like that of P. thyrsijiorus 

 (Weihe), and as that closely resembles the same part in P. 

 hirtus (judging from the plates) liis opinion may be con- 

 sidered as corresponding very accurately with mine. Un- 

 fortunately I had misled him and others into the idea that 

 our P. humifusus was the P. hirtus, and thus he w^as pre- 

 vented from expecting to find his P. fuscus under that name. 

 Mr Lees' P. hirtus is shown by an authentic specimen to be 

 P. fusco-ater. The plant given by Mr Bloxam (Fasciculus) 

 as P. fuscus, because so named by Mr Lees, is nevertheless 

 not the latter botanist's plant, and may be P. Padida. It is 

 from Great Cowleigh Park. 



