258 39. R. BALFOURIANUS/ 



if at all felted ; in rare cases the panicle is similar to that 

 of the small forms of R. Balfourianus ; and the sepals clasp 

 a small nearly abortive fruit. Although we may not now 

 know the true limits of the species it seems to me very 

 highly probable that they are distinct. 



A plant which grew at Henfield, Sussex, in 1845, and was 

 named R. nemorosus by Borrer, was placed in my Herbarium 

 as R. Balfourianus. The specimens were gathered in October 

 and the stems are nearly as naked as those of i?. Balfour- 

 ianus, but may have become so by the aciculi and setae 

 having fallen off. Others gathered in the month of July 

 of the preceding year, but apparently not at precisely the 

 same spot, are similar in all respects, except that some parts 

 of the stems are very iuUy clothed with those organs and 

 an abundance of very unequal prickles. These latter speci- 

 mens show that the plant (on which there seems to have 

 been no bloom) belongs to the Koehleriani not the Gcesii. 

 I place it under R. fusco-ater. 



I have a specimen from Mr Bloxam, which he gathered 

 at Twycross, and called R. corylifolius in 184G. It seems 

 to be R. Balfourianus, but has the terminal leaflet of one of its 

 leaves divided into three with the central segment stalked ; 

 in another that leaflet is undivided and cordate-prolonged. 



Brambles to which Mr Hort gave the provisional name 

 of R. multiceps may perhaps be placed here, although they 

 may, as I believe that he still suspects, be really distinct 

 from R. Balfourianus. They have prickles on the nearly 

 naked stem which closely resemble those of R. tuherculatus. 

 Their panicle is almost exactly like that of the less luxuriant 

 forms of R. Balfourianus. The terminal leaflet is elliptic. 

 Mr Hort also gave the name of R. multiceps to a specimen 

 which I gathered at Caerleon in Monmouthshire, and to 

 another found by himself by the river below the town of 

 Monmouth, both of which have a cordate-ovate terminal 



