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lanceolato acuminato grosse inequaliter serrato, panicule inferne 
ramosve (seepe ramis duobus maximis) corymbosz superne hirtz 
setis longis prominentibus aculeis declinatis vel subdeflexis. 
R. rosaceus, Rub. Germ. 85. t. 36. 
Rare. a. Terrington Car, Yorkshire, Mr. Spruce. B. Sel- 
borne, Hants, Dr. Bell Salter ; Haughton Vale, Mr. Sidebotham ; 
Channel. Islands. y. Selborne, Hants, Dr. Bell Salter; Twy- 
cross, Leicestershire, Rev. A. Blovam ; 8. Molton, Devon; Guild- 
ford, Isle of Wight. July and August. 
Obs. 1. Observation both of the wild and cultivated plants 
teaches us that these three varieties are only forms of one spe- 
cies. Although believing this and the preceding species to be 
specifically distinct, I have found very considerable difficulty in 
defining them, so as at the same time to include all the varieties of 
each and also distinguish the species. The leaves of this are nearly 
always ternate, those of R. hirtus quinate, but they both vary in 
this respect. In that the panicle is rather racemose than corym- 
bose, the contrary being the case in R. glandulosus. Here the . 
setze are usually short, and but little longer than the hairs on 
the panicle, and mostly equal in length (in R. Bellardi (Weihe) 
they vary in this respect, and on foreign specimens are often 
very variable both in length and number), in that they are many 
of them very long and prominent and very various in length. 
Gbs. 2. Dr. Bell Salter considers my plants from the Channel 
Islands to be R. rosaceus (Weihe), and therefore refers the R. Le- 
jeunt of my ‘ Manual’ (p. 97) to that variety. They seem to me to 
correspond far more with the figure and description of R. Lejeunii 
(Weihe) as given in the ‘ Rubi Germanici.’? Similarly he refers 
the plant found at Guildford in the Isle of Wight, and at Twy- 
cross, Leicestershire, to R. Lejeunii, whilst I consider it to belong 
to R. rosaceus. This shows how closely the plants are allied. 
26. R. humifusus (Weihe); caule procumbente tereti hirto setoso, 
aculeis tenuissimis inequalibus multis declinatis, foliis ternatis vel 
quinatis subtiliter ineequaliterque serratis subtus pallide viridibus 
 pilosisque, foliolo terminali cordato-ovato cuspidato, panicule ra- 
mos inferne foliose pilis laxis setis prominentibus aculeisque 
longis tenuibus declinatis. 
R. humifusus, Rubi Germ. 84. t. 35. 
Stems, flowering shoots, peduncles and petioles beautifully 
. clothed with slender yellow prickles and aciculi which have a 
purple base and pass insensibly into very long and slender and 
very unequal sete. The lower branches of the panicle elongated, 
ascending, 3—4.-flowered ; the others mostly 1-flowered. Stems 
slender, fuscous, purple. 
Glen Falloch, Perthshire. July and August. 
