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represented in E. Bot. 827, and intended by Smith in E. Fl. ii. 409, 

 and Fl. Br. ii. 542. Mr. Babington, who has seen the corylifolius 

 specimen in the Smithian herbarium, must decide this point. If it 

 be, the name Smithii would be an appropriate one for this variety. 



Judging from an indifferent specimen from Mr. Lees, I incline to 

 think that R. sublustris, y. ccenosus of Lees in Steele's Hand-Book is 

 referrible to this variety. Its chief peculiarity appears to consist in 

 an excess of hoariness which extends partially even to the barren 

 stem. Mr. Lees' remark respecting it is, " this var. often appears as 

 if dusted over with some farinaceous substance — indeed, 'white as a 

 miller.' " 



Var. 3". intermedia. Barren stem arching, angular, glabrous ex- 

 cept a very few stellate tufts of hairs on the prickles, dark 

 purple, slightly glaucous ; prickles nearly uniform, very nu- 

 merous, scattered, not confined to the angles, strong and very 

 sharp, slender, horizontal, longer than the dilated base, dark 

 purple ; leaves digitate, 5-nate, large, on long stout petioles, 

 slightly hoary, armed with numerous strong decurved stout 

 prickles ; leaflets thin, plane, terminal one on a moderately 

 long stalk, intermediate pair on very short stalks, lowermost 

 quite sessile and overlapping intermediate ones, dull dark 

 green and glabrous on upper side, underside pale green, with 

 soft scattered shining hairs, but destitute of tomentum, 

 though with a good magnifier the incipient rudiments of to- 

 mentum may be discerned ; veins very prominent, midrib 

 armed with short stout decurved prickles ; terminal leaflet 

 rotundato-cordato-ovate, acuminate, very coarsely and irregu- 

 larly crenato-cuspidato-serrated, intermediate ones broadly 

 oblong, lowermost small in proportion, oval, both pairs di- 

 lated in their lower portion ; stipules narrow, linear-lanceo- 

 late, margins hairy ; flowering stem angular, zigzag, slightly 

 hoary with minute stellate clusters of white hairs below, 

 more so upwards, with a few scattered dark purple stipitate 

 glands ; leaves large, lower 3-nate, upper simple and large, 

 not continued to the extremity ; panicle composed of two or 

 three elongated axillary branches, each bearing a small cy- 

 mose head of flowers, the extremity with a large terminal cy- 

 mose naked rather loose cluster of blossoms ; secondaiy 

 branches hoary and glandular ; prickles numerous, strong, 

 straight, declinate and slightly curved, those of the rachis 

 most numerous and chiefly clustered on the upper portion of 



