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gent, hairy ; leaves quinate, coriaceous, on hairy and prickly petioles, 

 and white with dense pubescence beneath, the central leaflet roundish- 

 cordate, cuspidate ; panicle long, very hairy, closely armed in the 

 central part, but less so above and below ; calyx covered with long 

 hairs, concealing glands ; petals downy. Rough Hill Wood, &c. 

 Rather common. 



A well-marked form in its typical state, but very puzzling varieties 

 with denuded stems often occur. 



B. incurvatns, Bab. Stem angular, sulcate, slightly clothed with 

 scattered hairs, and armed with distant declining prickles ; leaves 

 pedate or quinate, central and intermediate leaflets ovate, undulating, 

 crisped, and serrate-dentate at the edges, gradually acuminate, and 

 ending in a curved point, the lower pair of leaflets seated on the inter- 

 mediate, and somewhat overlapped by them ; rachis downy ; panicle 

 long, flexuous, with distant racemous branches, the greater portion 

 leafy, upper ones short and densely clustered ; peduncles downy and 

 densely hairy, armed with long pale prickles ; calyx closely downy ; 

 the sepals incurved about the flowers and immature fruit. Rai*e. 

 Thickets between Cowleigh and Worcester. 



This has a peculiar aspect, with a long narrow panicle, far more 

 crowded and hairy than that of corylifolius, to which Dr. Bell Salter 

 has referred it. 



H. pampinosus. Stem angular, polished, with only short incon- 

 spicuous hairs, armed with many very small declining prickles at the 

 base, longer higher up the stem ; leaves large, thin, and flexible, with 

 scattered ciliated hairs on the veins beneath, lower leaflets seated on 

 the intermediate, central one ovate or cordate-ovate, with coarse ser- 

 ratures ; rachis with a dense fringe of spreading hairs ; panicle very 

 long, with paniculate lower branches, shortening but spreading out 

 wider as they ascend in a thyrsiform manner, and with ternate axil- 

 lary leaves nearly to the summit ; sepals densely hairy, with scattered 

 prickles, loosely reflex in flower and fruit. ]n dense thickets, Cow- 

 leigh Park. 



A very remarkable bramble, with leaves so large and numerous as 

 almost to conceal the stem. It is related to my friend Bloxam's R. 

 calvatus, but without the savage aspect of that rough bramble ; its 

 leaves are almost naked, green on both sides, and its enormously 

 lengthened, wide-spreading panicle, whose upper branches are nutant 

 in fruit, give it claims to correct discrimination. The stem often 

 becomes quite denuded, when it might be confounded with R. cordi- 

 folius. 



