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R. Bellardi, W. and N. Stem procumbent, closely hairy and 

 setose ; prickles small, weak, and numerous ; leaves mostly ternate, 

 with pale, prominent, ciliated ribs beneath ; panicle closely hairy, 

 with short aciculi, longer setae, and weak deflexed prickles ; its lower 

 branches distant leafy, crowded at the summit ; the sepals patent 

 about the half-ripe fruit. In Rough Hill Wood to the summit. Also 

 in woods on the Old Storrage, and near Cradley. 



R. JLejeunei, W. and N. Stem angular, armed with unequal 

 prickles, with few setae, passing into pale, weak aciculi ; leaves ter- 

 nate, quarternate, and quinate, often large ; if ternate, the lateral lobes 

 large, bulging towards the stem, the central one widely separate, 

 ovate, and sharply doubly-serrate, all hairy above and downy on the 

 ribs beneath ; panicle with three or four spreading, axillary, leafy, 

 corymbose branches, and about the same number of upper short ones, 

 the whole much divaricated and bending when in fruit, covered with 

 soft hairs, setae, and aciculi, most numerous towards the summit ; 

 calyces woolly, setose, and prickly ; loosely reflex in fruit. Plentiful 

 in a dingle at the north side of Rough Hill. 



The long lower branches, spreading almost at right angles, and 

 forming a singularly wide panicle, give this plant a peculiar aspect, 

 especially when pendent in fruit. It probably osculates with R. 

 rosaceus. 



R. pallidus, W. and N. Stem angular, trailing, armed with distant 

 prickles, copiously fringed with stellate hairs, setae, and aciculi, form- 

 ing an hispid fringe surrounding the stem on all sides ; leaves ternate 

 or'quinate, the leaflets elliptical, central one slightly obovate, narrowed 

 at the base, with a long cusp, all bright green above, pallid beneath ; 

 panicle broad, hairy, and setose, with long pale prickles, and distant, 

 corymbose, leafy branches. In Cowleigh Park plentiful. 



/3. Hystrix. Stem thicker, but otherwise similar ; the leaves larger, 

 all quinate with coarser serratures, pale green, and never canescent ; 

 rachis more hairy than the barren stem, and fringed with glands and 

 aciculi ; panicle very long, its lower branches very distant, leafy, and 

 corymbose, gradually shortening and approximating to the summit. 

 In the same thickets with pallidus. 



Pallidus is a most variable plant in woods, often very attenuated 

 and trailing, but always marked by its elliptical leaflets ; the flowers 

 frequently a bright mottled red, as are those of hystrix, and it appears 

 to me that there is little difference between them, or rather a complete 

 graduation from one to the other. Fruit seldom perfected. 



R.fuscus, W. and N. Stem prostrate, succulent, hairy, with few 



