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the setae, aciculi, and prickles pass insensibly into each other. The 

 rachis is covered with long hairs, almost concealing the setae and aci- 

 culi, and densely armed with long pale prickles. Panicle, in full 

 luxuriance, two or three feet long, with very distant, axillary, panicu- 

 late branches, at first ascending at a very acute angle ; the ternate 

 floral leaves rising nearly to the summit ; upper branches densely 

 crowded together, with trifid bracts, amidst a confused mass of hairs, 

 aciculi, and long pale prickles ; sepals foliaceous, covered with long 

 white hairs and setae, finally reflex. The very distant lower corym- 

 bose branches of the panicle in Bloxamii, and its far more rigid, 

 thorny aspect, distinguish this from the thyrsiflorus form of R. Gun- 

 theri. On the borders of woods, but rare. The type in Hants, Lei- 

 cestershire, Herefordshire, and Caernarvonshire ; B. in Middlesex, 

 Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire. 



R. hirtus, W. & N., var. horridus. Hairs on the panicle so long 

 as to be both spreading and accumbent, exceeding the setae and aci- 

 culi in length, forming dense masses at the origin of the axillary 

 branches ; sepals armed with long, white, slender prickles, rising 

 beyond the crowded hairs and setae, ending in foliaceous points. 

 Forest districts. 



I must here remark that the common form of " hirtus," as named 

 in English herbaria, and distributed in Leighton's ' Fasciculus,' is 

 very unlike the figure of hirtus in Rub. Germ, xliii., more approxi- 

 mating, in the appearance of its barren stem, to rosaceus, t. xxxvi. ; 

 while the variety I have indicated quite agrees with the armature of 

 the panicle in that figure, and even with its rosaceous, leafy calyces. 



R. scaher, Weihe., &. verrucosus. Stem densely armed with yellow 

 prickles, whose bases are distended into each other, stiff* with hairs 

 and innumerable setae ; panicle with numerous axillary branches, 

 nutant in fruit ; peduncles and sepals densely hairy and setose, 

 crowded with acute, falcate prickles. Subalpine thickets. Broms- 

 grove Lickey, Worcestershire. 



This variety is more closely and densely armed than any other 

 British bramble I have met with, the enormously-distended bases of 

 the prickles having setae even upon them, and the entire panicle 

 excessively thorny. R. scaber itself is confined to exposed, hilly 

 spots, as Horsenton Hill, Middlesex ; the Old Storrage Hill, Leigh 

 Sinton, Herefordshire ; Sutton Park, Warwickshire ; and in Leices- 

 tershire. I observed it, a ^ew years since, in some abundance near 

 Aber, Caernarvonshire. Its red, very prickly stem will always dis- 

 tinguish it. 



