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slender, whilst those of the panicle are increased in strength and 
sometimes even hooked, those of the same part in a. and @. being 
straight. The var. 6. is well marked by its short stout decli- 
ning or often hooked prickles accompanied by long slender ones 
on the panicle. And the great decrease in the number of the 
larger prickles, combined with the increased number of aciculi, 
setze and hairs in var. e, point out its relationship to the next 
species. By the kindness of Mr. Lees, I possess two specimens 
of a plant from “the western base of the Malvern Hills” closely 
resembling var. ¢; it is densely hairy throughout, but has very 
few setz or aciculi on the barren stems. 
Obs. 2. A specimen received from Mr. Lees under the name 
of R. pallidus 8. foliosus (Lees), seems to occupy an intermediate 
station between this and the next species ; it may be described as 
follows, and should its peculiar panicle prove constant is probably 
specifically distinct. 
Stem procumbent (?), angular, dark purple, hairy ; sete very 
numerous and unequal; prickles numerous, slightly declining, 
straight, rather strong, yellow. Leaves quinate or ternate (°?), 
opake above, hairy, soft and paler beneath; terminal leaflet 
broadly obovate cuspidate. Panicle very long, with numerous 
short axillary ascending corymbose (?) branches, the three upper- 
most extrafoliaceous and subtended by long foliaceous bracts ; 
rachis and peduncles very hairy, and with numerous unequal 
yellowish sete with purple heads, and straight slender declining 
yellow aciculi and prickles ; floral leaves pilose above, soft be- 
neath, simple and cordate-ovate, 3-lobed, or the lower ones ter- 
nate. Calyx hairy, with numerous unequal setz and aciculi ; se- 
pals with a long leaflike point. Plant only in bud. 
Found on the “banks of the Wye near Vaga Cottage, Great 
Doward, Monmouthshire,’ Mr. E. Lees. 
24. R. hirtus (W.et N.) ; caule “ procumbente tereti”’ hirto setoso, 
aculeis parvis tenuibus valde ineequalibus multis rectis declinatis, 
foliis quinatis vel ternatis concoloribus pilosis subtus hirtis, foliolo 
terminali ovato-cuspidato vel ovato-lanceolato, panicule valde se- 
tosze tomentose vel hirtz aciculate racemose inferne foliose setis 
valde inequalibus purpureis, sepalis patentibus fructuive adpressis 
setosis. 
Sete very numerous and very unequal. Panicle with rather 
distant axillary branches, which are somewhat corymbose and 
short ; in a Scottish specimen the panicle is quite simple. Upper 
part of the flowering shoot with strongly deflexed or declining 
prickles. 
a. hirtus; foliis magnis quinatis, foliolo terminali ovali cuspidato, 
panicula tomentosa. 
R. hirtus, Rub. Germ. 95. t. 43. 
