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ferne foliosze densissime hirsute setosee ramis brevibus paucifloris 
divaricatis. 
R. villicaulis 6. tenuis, Bab. Man. 95. 
R. dentatus, Bad. in literis ad amicos. 
Stem long, arched, slightly angular, hairy; prickles rather 
numerous and unequal, not confined to the angles of the stem, 
straight, yellow tinged with purple, subulate from a dilated hairy 
base; sete and aciculi wanting ; hairs numerous, scattered, 
slender, spreading, white. Leaves quinate-pedate or ternate by 
the junction of the lateral pairs, thin; terminal leaflet nearly 
round, acute, slightly emarginate at the base, doubly and coarsely 
dentate-crenate-apiculate, except towards the base, which is di- 
stantly serrate; mtermediate leaflets obovate-acute ; lowermost 
when distinct shortly stalked, oval, acute; all thin, dark green 
and pilose above, light green with much more conspicuous hairs, 
especially on the ribs, beneath ; petioles and pedicels very hairy 
and with scattered straight slender strongly declining yellow 
prickles with a purple base; stipules linear-lanceolate hairy. 
Flowering shoot and panicle very hairy ; prickles slender, straight, 
declining, yellow tinged with purple at the base. Leaves ternate ; 
leaflets large, oval, acute, finely and nearly regularly dentate- 
apiculate. Panicle and its branches with numerous setz which 
are shorter than the hairs and hidden by them; about three 
lower branches from the axils of the leaves, the rest, about eight, 
subtended by trifid slender very hairy bracts, all spreading nearly 
at right angles to the rachis and bearing a corymb of three or 
four flowers, the uppermost are 1-flowered ; the lower ones about 
two inches long, the others shortening upwards. Sepals acumi- 
nate, densely woolly on both sides, with long hairs and a few 
short setz interspersed. 
Gathered at Haughmont, Salop, in September 1837, in com- 
pany with my friend the Rey. W. A. Leighton, author of the 
justly valued ‘ Flora of Shropshire.’ I have named the plant in 
his honour, being obliged to place the R. Leightoni (Lees) as a 
variety of R. rudis, and wishing to retain his name attached to a 
species in a genus to the elucidation of which he has so success- ~ 
fully devoted his talents. I also found it at Alborne, Sussex, in 
1845. 
Obs. The peculiar toothing of the leaves is a characteristic 
point of great value, very few species being so distinguished. R. 
Babingtonii in the glandulose group is a similar and almost soli- 
tary case. 
16. R. carpinifolius (W. et N.); caule ascendente subanguloso hirto, 
aculeis validis deflexis declinatisve, foliis quinatis coriaceis acute 
serratis subtus viridis, foliolo terminali ovato angusto acuminato, 
