290 43. R. c^sius. 



lower sessile, ovate, acuminate, strongly lobed on the lower 

 side, or each divided into two leaflets, of which one is sessile 

 and ovate and the other very shortly stalked and broadly 

 ovate ; upper pair separated considerably from the basal, 

 sessile, ovate, acute, unequal-sided ; terminal stalked, roundly 

 cordate, acuminate; petioles and midribs with small straight 

 slender prickles beneath; petioles slightly furrowed above, 

 rather more furrowed beyond the lowest leaflets ; stipules 

 linear- lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot rather slender. Prickles straight, de- 

 clining, increasing in number towards the panicle. Panicle 

 long, leafy, with very many slender declining prickles on 

 its upper part and peduncles, and few or no setae, felted. 

 Flowers in small axillary and terminal, few-flowered corymbs. 

 Sejyals ovate-acuminate, with a long slender point, green, 

 aciculate, setose, felted, clasping the fruit. 



I have only seen one specimen of this variety, which was 

 given to me by my lamented friend the Kev. W. H. Cole- 

 man, its discoverer at Hunsdon in Hertfordshire. 



I have received specimens bearing the name of B. pseudo- 

 Tdceus or of R. ccEsius f3 pseudo-Idceus from Dr Lindeberg 

 (in Bahusia, raro), and Prof Lange (Apenrade, Slesvigise), 

 which almost exactly agree with the plate in Bubi Germanici. 

 They and the plant represented on that plate differ from our 

 plant fi'om Hunsdon by ha^dng the terminal leaflet of the 

 pinnate leaves narrowed to the base, whereas on our plant 

 from Hertfordshire it is much the broadest and cordate at the 

 base. Dr Metsch (Linnsea, xxviii. 105) refers the plants of 

 Weihe and of Lejeune to E. Idceus as j8 canescens, but I 

 cannot agree with him. The R. pseudo-Idceus of Miiller is, 

 as he suspected, the R. suherectus of Anderson. 



Mr Lees has sent a plant with the name of R. ccesius v. 

 pseudo-Idceus from woods near Worcester, which is not 

 exactly my plant nor that of the Rubi Germ. It has quinate- 



