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c. Rt. Kaltenbachii Metsch.—St. more angular and deeply striate, 
with fewer hairs and acicles, many stalked glands and subulate 
declining prickles. L. more frequently 5- aid Lts. narrower, 
vbovate-acuminate, almost simply dentate-serrate, but with the larger 
teeth patent or recurved, an, large, pyramidal, drooping, with 
e 
purplish black, stalked glands. Usually a handsome plant with showy 
fl. (Glost., Somers. 
R. pendulinus P. J. Muell. (Journ. Bot. 1886, p. 284) and R. 
velatus Lefr. (B. E. C. Rep. 1888, p. 211; 1889, p, 254) would 
perhaps be best kept out of our list for present. or 
seems hardly to differ from R. Bellardi except by its red styles, 
hairy carpels and 8-5-nate 1. The latter is nearer to A. hirtus, aud 
(as  seeoabed by the Rey. A. Ley’s Lyonshall specimen) has obo- 
vate lts. and a long, leafy, bemmea te pan. with pseudo-umbellate 
side branches and small pet 
Stalked glands of the = sunken, or at least shorter than 
the diameter of the e ped. 
81. Fie TE fos ae P, J. Muell., B. EF. C. Rep. 1888, p. 212; 
Eng!. Bot., Suppl. 3rd ed., p. 113. Sh sani 8 densely hairy, 
with many yt short) ee rhe and rery ete unequal, 
aciculate prickles and acicles. m . Lts. acutely serrate, 
green and hairy on both sides ; term: peed elliptic or Beacon 
acuminate, from nearly entire or subcordate base. either 
mply racemose or pseudo-umbellate-racemose below ; % he. sume- 
ple even in fr. tam. generally rather shorter th an the 
styles, longer in flat- county forms.’”’ Heathland nr. Sprowston, 
in considerable quantity. 
At first sight very like f. hirtus, ye one ee from it 
without difficulty by the far more hairy st., with its very slender 
aciculate prickles, and by the sunken, blackish, stalked glands on 
orf. ; 
2. R. orcocuapus Muell. & Lefv.? Rk. fusco-ater Ane ges 
(in part). ‘Near R. omalodontos Mall.” FT Plym. ; £ 
Rep. 1891, p. 832.—St. stout, roundish, cen striate, pai 
thinly clothed with very short hair and fairly many very short ils port 
stalked glands. Prickles declining, much compressed ; a few 
large. 1. mostly 5-nate-pedate. Lts. rather thick, thinly bars on 
both sides, grey-green beneath, finely serrate, all usually obovate- 
cuspidate ; term. broadly obovate-truncate vie? cuspidate or shortly 
ee gees -acuminate point, from narrow, emarginate or subcordate 
bas Pan. often long; oaks ultra- aislinv? part either wholly 
anemic with subsessile term. fl. and ong-pedicelled lateral fl., or 
with a few 2-3-flowered dieimodiel at the base of the racemose top ; : 
