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snb-cordato at the base, abruptly acumiiiato or cuspiclatc. Flowers 

 in a long lax panicle, leafy below, with ratlier short spreading 

 corymbose branches, or the lower ones longer, ascending and sub- 

 racemose ; rachis and pedicels pilose, sometimes with a few short 

 gland-tipped setae, with numerous strong, straight, and hooked 

 prickles. Calyx felted and pilose. 



a, Ji. Salteri. Bab. olim. 



T.eaflets lobed or doubly serrate. Rachis of cylindrical panicle 

 nearly straight ; branches corymbose, patent, a few sunken setieon 

 the panicle and calyx. Sepals erect-patent. Petals white. 



3, B. calcatus. Blox. (in Fl. Leicester, p. 42). 



Leaflets coarsely and doubly dentate-serrate. Panicle lax, with 

 the rachis flexuous, upper branches corymbose, spreading, lower 

 ones ascending and sub-racemose; numerous short gland-lipped 

 setae on the rachis and branches. Sepals slightly reflexed. Petals 

 pink "or deep rose-colour " (Bab.). 



Open woods, hedges, and on heaths. Rai'c. a in Apse-Castle 

 "Wood, near Shanklin, Isle of "Wight; 0in Shropshire, Leicestershire, 

 and Surrey. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



The form « I have never seen, but Professor Babington considers 

 it and R. calvatus as the extremes of one species, while the Rev. 

 A. Bloxam says : " R. calvatus is very distinct from R. Salter! 

 as a species." However tliis discrepancy may be explained, as 

 ]\Ir. Bloxam has kindly sent me a specimen, on the ticket of which 

 is written : " Sent to me as R. Salteri, and much resembling a 

 specimen so named by Dr. Bell Salter." I should have had no 

 hesitation in referring this specimen to R. Balfourianus, and 

 Dr. Bell Salter confounded the two. — (Bot. Gazette, Vol. II. 

 pp. 119, 120.) 



SitUo's Bramble. 



Scb-Species XYI.— EubUS carpillifoliuS. Weilie & Nees. 

 Bab. Jlan. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 101. 



Barren stem erect-arching angular, sub-glabrous ; prickles 

 numerous, slender, declining, from a long compressed base. Leaves 

 of the barren stem quinate; leaflets thin, sparingly pilose above, 

 paler and densely pilose on the veins beneath, finely and evenly 



