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setae and weak prickles ; leaves large, thick, and coriaceous, coarsely 

 serrate, green and velvety beneath ; panicle long, straggling, corym- 

 bose, often leafy to the snmmit, densely hairy and setose, with slender 

 prickles interspersed ; sepals hairy and setose, closely investing the 

 half-ripe fruit. In Cowleigh Park, and forming intricate thickets in 

 Brockhill Wood, Colwall : green through the winter. 



Very fine specimens have elongated, wide-spreading, nutant, and 

 thyrsiform panicles, after the manner of R. thyrsiflorus, W. and N. : 

 leaves larger and thicker than in any other British bramble. 



R.fitsco-ater, W. and N. Stem fringed with hairs, densely clothed 

 with setae and acicnli, graduating into unequal pale prickles ; leaves 

 pedate or quinate, the lowest pair on short stalks retrorse, the central 

 one obovate or cordate-ovate, with unequal teeth, cuspidate, gvay, 

 with abundant hairs beneath ; rachis clothed as the stem, grisly with 

 hairs ; panicle very hairy and setose, armed with long pale prickles ; 

 its branches shoi't and leafy below, distant, but crowded at the sum- 

 mit ; sepals silky, with long hairs extending beyond the setae, reflex. 

 In Cowleigh Park, and other thickety spots. 



A variable plant, much confounded in herbaria. I suspect the R. 

 Schleicheri of W. and N. to be a state of it. 



R. KoeJderi, W. and N. Stem densely ai'med with unequal straight 

 prickles passing into aciculi ; leaves quinate, with elliptical sharply 

 serrate leaflets, closely hairy beneath ; panicle long, narrow, very 

 prickly, and setose. Not uncommon. 



In its typical state easily distinguishable ; but if fusco-ater be re- 

 ferred to it, as is done by Dr. Bell Salter, confusion at once ensues. 

 I am inclined to refer the echinatus of Lindley here, as a form%ith a 

 wider and more leafy panicle, and, if possible, more setose. This 

 grows in Cowleigh Park. 



ii. hirtus^ W. and N. Stem excessively hairy, the dense hairs 

 extending beyond the setae ; prickles slender, deflexed ; leaves [on 

 densely hairy and setose petioles, their leaflets sharply cut, and gray 

 with appressed hairs beneath ; rachis densely hairy, setose, and 

 prickly ; panicle with distant acutely-ascending leafy branches below, 

 upper ones crowded ; peduncles and calyces shaggy, with long hairs 

 concealing setae. In thick woods. 



jS. candicans. The petioles, under side of the leaves, rachis, and 

 panicle canescent, with such thick-set hairs that the setaj are com- 

 pletely buried in them. In the Priory Grove, Little Malvern. This 

 remarkable form Mr. Babington has referred to R. fusco-ater, but I 

 think it belongs to hirtus. 



