266 40. R. coRYLiroLius. 



stipules linear-lanceolate. Rarely a seta or aciculus may be 

 found on the upper part of the stem. 



Flowering shoot from brown silky scales, straightish, 

 felted, especially towards the top. Prickles few, slender, 

 declining, from large bases. Leaves ternate. Leaflets ovate, 

 doubly dentate-serrate; those of the uppermost leaves pale 

 green, felted, and haiiy beneath. Panicle short, broad; top 

 and branches subcorymbose ; often consisting chiefly of two 

 or three long axillary branches, themselves bearing terminal 

 and lateral corymbs, and closely resembling (except in the 

 rather looser arrangement of the flowers) the dense ultra- 

 axillary top ; rachis slightly wavy, and as well as the peduncles 

 and branches felted, with a few short setae, hairy. Sepals 

 ovate, rather abruptly ending in a short linear point, hairy, 

 felted, reflexed. Petals ovate-oblong, bluntish, slightly 

 notched at the end, pink or white. Filaments, anthers and 

 styles yellowish. Primordial fruit-stalk very short, shorter 

 than the sepals. The panicle is sometimes leafy nearly or 

 quite to its top. 



I unfortunately once named a specimen of this plant R. 

 latifolius for Mr Baker. Hence his erroneous idea of R. 

 latifolius [Sujypl. to Baines^s Fl. York. 63. Phytol. iv. 969). 



The usual form of this plant is described above, but a 

 specimen before me deserves notice from the great difl'erence 

 which it presents. It has an enormously long panicle, leafy 

 to its top, w-hich is loosely corymbose with a long-stalked 

 terminal flower ; the lower branches resemble the whole 

 panicle on a small scale, but are leafless. This plant was 

 gathered in Cambridgeshii'e by Mr Newbould, to whom I 

 am indebted for the specimen. 



The plant named R. rhamnifolius forme ordhiaire by 

 Nees V. Esenbech for Leighton, seems to be this variety of 

 R. corylifolius ; but it has scattered stellate pubescence upon 

 its stem. The R. nemorosus y hifrons of my Synopsis^ the 



